page_title: List of Russian physicists
section_title: A
hierarchical_section_title: List of Russian physicists / Alphabetical list / A
caption_attribution_description: Zhores Alferov
context_page_description: This list of Russian physicists includes the famous physicists from the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation.
context_section_description: Alexei Abrikosov, discovered how magnetic flux can penetrate a superconductor (the Abrikosov vortex), Nobel Prize winner
  Franz Aepinus,  related electricity and magnetism, proved the electric nature of pyroelectricity, explained electric polarization and electrostatic induction, invented achromatic microscope
  Zhores Alferov, inventor of modern heterotransistor, Nobel Prize winner
  Artem Alikhanian, a prominent researcher of cosmic rays, inventor of wide-gap track spark chamber
  Abraham Alikhanov, nuclear physicist, a prominent researcher of cosmic rays, built the first nuclear reactors in the USSR, founder of Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP)
  Semen Altshuler, researched EPR and NMR, predicted acoustic paramagnetic resonance
  Lev Artsimovich, builder of the first tokamak, researcher of high temperature plasma
  Gurgen Askaryan, predicted self focusing of light, discovered Askaryan effect in the particle physics
caption: Alferov
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