Vadim Knizhnik

Vadim Genrikhovich Knizhnik (b. 1962 Kiev, d. 1987 Moscow) was a Jewish Russian physicist.

"Vadim studied physics from 1978 to 1984 at the Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology. He has received his PhD at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics. His supervisor was Prof. A. Polyakov, however at the time of his PhD courses ("aspirantship") Vadim was already a first-class physicist and supervising him was a pure formality. In 1986 he became a member of the Landau Institute.His distinguished abilities showed quite early. At the secondary school he wontwice the physics olympiad of the USSR. He wrote his first scientific paper (incollaboration with Prof. L. Andreev) as a student in 1982. This paper has dealtwith kinetic properties of quantum crystals.From 1984 he turned to quantum field theory and made very important contributionsto String Theory." [A.B. Zamolodchikov in "Frontiers in Nonperturbative Field Theory", ed. Z. Hotvath, l. Palla and A. Patkos, World Scientific, ISBN 9971-5-0780-3, page vii.]

References

ee also

*Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations

External links

* [http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_k.htm Russian Jewish Encyclopedia] , retrieved November 24, 2006