Semyon Solomonovich Gershtein (13 July 1929 – 20 February 2023) was a Soviet and Russian physicist. He was an academician of Russian Academy of Sciences since 2003. He was a USSR State Prize laureate.
Semyon Gershtein | |
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Семён Герштейн | |
Born | |
Died | 20 February 2023 Moscow, Russia | (aged 93)
Alma mater | MSU Faculty of Physics |
Awards | Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" Order of Honour (Russia) USSR State Prize |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Theoretical physics |
Institutions | Institute for High Energy Physics Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology |
Academic advisors | Anatoly Vlasov,[1] Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov |
Gershtein was born in Harbin, China. After graduating from the Department of Nuclear Physics (Faculty of Physics) in Moscow State University, he worked at a school in Kaluga Oblast until 1954. In 1955, he entered the graduate school of the Institute for Physical Problems.
Gershtein was a senior researcher in the Institute for High Energy Physics. He went on to become a professor of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1963).
Gershtein authored more than two hundred publications and several scientific discoveries.
Gershtein died in Moscow on 20 February 2023, at the age of 93.[2]