Background
Belavin, Alexander was born on August 28, 1942 in Gorky, Russia. Son of Abram Moiseevich Rappoport and Elena Ivanovna Belavina.
Theoretical physicist university professor
Belavin, Alexander was born on August 28, 1942 in Gorky, Russia. Son of Abram Moiseevich Rappoport and Elena Ivanovna Belavina.
Magister, Moscow Physical Engineering Institute, 1967; Doctor of Philosophy in Materials Science, Landau Institute Theoretical Physics, Moscow, 1977.
He is a professor at the Independent University of Moscow and is researcher at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics. He forestood the discovery of the BPST instanton (1975) which aided the understanding of the chiral anomaly and gave new directions within quantum field theory. With G. Avdeeva he showed evidence of new coupling regimes for gauge field theory (1973).
He also developed the Belavin S-matrices, exactly solvable models in two-dimensional relativistic theories in (1981). He co-authored the BPZ paper (1984) with Alexander Polyakov and Alexander Zamolodchikov on 2D conformal field theories, which became important for string theory. With Vadim Knizhnik he made the Belavin–Knizhnik theorem on dual amplitudes in string theory (1986).
He is also a member of the editorial board of the Moscow Mathematical Journal.
Married Nadezhda Metlickaya. Children: Anna, Vladimir, Yackov.