Alexander Borisovich Zamolodchikov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Бори́сович Замоло́дчиков; born September 18, 1952) is a Russian physicist, known for his contributions to condensed matter physics,two-dimensional conformal field theory, and string theory, and is currently the C.N. Yang/Wei Deng Endowed Chair of Physics at Stony Brook University.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Awards
• 3 See also
• 4 References

Biography

Born in Novo-Ivankovo, now part of Dubna, Zamolodchikov earned a M.Sc. in nuclear engineering (1975) from Moscow Ins*ute of Physics and Technology, a Ph.D. in physics from the Ins*ute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (1978). He joined the research staff of Landau Ins*ute for Theoretical Physics (1978) where he got an honorary doctorate (1983).

He co-aut*d the famous BPZ paper "Infinite Conformal Symmetry in Two-Dimensional Quantum Field Theory", with Alexander Polyakov and Alexander Belavin.

He joined Rutgers University (1990) where he co-founded Rutgers New High Energy Theory Center, and was named Board of Governors Professor (2005).

In 2016, he became the inaugural holder of the C. N. Yang/Wei Deng Chair in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and C. N. Yang Ins*ute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University.

He is the twin brother of the late Alexei Zamolodchikov (1952–2007), also a noted physicist.

Awards

• 1999: Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics with Barry M. McCoy and Tai Tsun Wu for "their groundbreaking and penetrating work on cl*ical statistical mechanics, integrable models and conformal field theories."
• 2003/4: Humboldt Prize
• 2005: Blaise Pascal Chair at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris
• 2011: Lars Onsager Prize, together with Alexander Belavin and Alexander Polyakov, " for the remarkable ideas that they introduced concerning conformal field theory and soluble models of statistical mechanics in two dimensions."
• 2011: Dirac Medal from the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste.
• 2016: elected to the National Academy of Sciences

See also

• C-theorem
• Conformal bootstrap
• Knizhnik–Zamolodchikov equations
• Thirring model
• W-algebra

References