Education
Valery Pokrovsky defended his Doctor of Philosophy thesis at Tomsk University in 1957.
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Valery Pokrovsky
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Career
After having received his master degree from Kharkov University, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, in 1953. Until 1966, he was a scientist at the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. In 1966, he was invited to join the newly founded Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics. He also was employed as a professor at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
In 1992, he became a professor of physics at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University.
His areas of research are quantum mechanics, statistical physics, and condensed matter theory. He is best known for his pioneering and fundamental contributions to the modern theory of phase transitions, together with Alexander Patashinski, in 1965, as well as the analysis of transformations between commensurate and incommensurate superstructures in two-dimensional systems, the Pokrovsky-Talapov transition.
Achievements
Membership
He is a member of the Landau Institute in Chernogolovka near Moscow in Russia and a professor for Theoretical Physics at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University.
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Russia Soviet Union Unite
Education
Awards
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Lars Onsager Prize; Humboldt Prize; the Landau Prize
The Lars Onsager Prize is a prize in theoretical statistical physics awarded annually by the American Physics Society.; The Humboldt Prize, also known as the Humboldt Research Award, is an award given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to internationally renowned scientists and scholars.The Lars Onsager Prize is a prize in theoretical statistical physics awarded annually by the American Physics Society.; The Humboldt Prize, also known as the Humboldt Research Award, is an award given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to internationally renowned scientists and scholars.