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Vitaly L. Ginzburg (1916–2009) shared the Nobel Prize in physics for 2003 with Alexei A. Abrikosov and Anthony J. Leggett “for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids.” His most famous and most important scientific work is the theory he developed with Lev Landau, the Ginzburg-Landau theory of superconductivity.
“So, I introduced as the order parameter some macroscopic psi-function. And I came to Landau with this idea. He agreed, and we began. We immediately had this equation for the free energy with psi as the parameter, and afterwards we worked out all the rest; and that is the history.”
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Fossheim, K. (2013). Vitaly L. Ginzburg: The Ginzburg-Landau Theory of Superconductivity. In: Superconductivity: Discoveries and Discoverers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36059-6_2
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