physicist
nuclear scientist
Valentin Panteleimonovich Smirnov, is a Russian scientist, director of the Nuclear Fusion Institute at Kurchatov Institute, and academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Career
1961: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
Achievements
1961: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
1981: Doctor degree physical-math science
1981: Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics State Prize
1997: State Prize of the Russian Federation
2002: Jesse W. Beams Research Award
2005: Hannes Alfvén Prize of the European Physical Society, together with Malcolm Golby Haines and Thomas Sanford, "for their major contributions to the development of the multi-wire array in Z-pinch pulse-power physics".
Membership
Russian Academy of Sciences.