Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov; graduated Moscow State University in 1948. Postgraduate at the Institute for Physical Problems (IPP), Moscow, USSR, 1948-51. Candidate of Sciences (Ph.D.) at IPP in 1951. Junior, Senior research scientist at IPP 1951-1965. Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (Habilitation) at IPP in 1955. Head of Department of the Theory of Solids at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, 1965-1988. Director of the Institute for High Pressure Physics, Troitsk, Moscow District, 1988-1991. Distinguished Argonne Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory, USA, 1991-present time.

Additional teaching jobs: Assistant, Associated, Full Professor of the Moscow State University 1951-1976. Head of the Department for Theoretical Physics, Moscow Institute for Steel and Alloys 1976-1991. Adjunct Professor, University of Utah, 1993, 1996; University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995, Visiting Professor, University of Chicago, 1996.

Honors: Corresponding Member -1964, Full Member - 1987 of the Academy of Sciences USSR. Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences -1991. Doctor of Sciences Honoris Causa of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland - 1975. Fellow of the American Physical Society - 1992. Member of the National Academy of Sciences USA - 2000.

Awards: Lenin Prize USSR - 1966, International Fritz London Award -1972, State Prize USSR - 1982, Landau Prize of the Academy of Sciences USSR - 1989, International John Bardeen Award - 1991.

Publications: 3 books, more than 190 articles on superconductivity, theory of metals, semimetals, semiconductors, magnetism, quantum liquids, statistical physics, astrophysics, plasma theory, molecular physics, quantum electrodynamics etc. in special journals.