Vadim Knizhnik

Education

"Vadim studied physics from 1978 to 1984 at the Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology. He has received his Doctor of Philosophy at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics.

Career

His supervisor was Professor A. Polyakov, however at the time of his Doctor of Philosophy courses ("aspirantship") Vadim was already a first-class physicist and supervising him was a pure formality. His distinguished abilities showed quite early.

He wrote his first scientific paper (in collaboration with Professor L Andreev) as a student in 1982.

This paper has dealt with kinetic properties of quantum crystals. From 1984 he turned to quantum field theory and made very important contributions to string theory.".

Achievements

• At the secondary school he won twice the physics olympiad of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.

Membership

In 1986 he became a member of the Landau Institute.