Russian physicist, chief researcher at St. Petersburg State University (SPbSU) Nikolai Reshetikhin. Photo credit: FADDEEV.COM / youtube.com
Russian physicist, chief researcher at St. Petersburg State University (SPbSU) Nikolay Reshetikhin became the first winner of the Hermann Weyl and Eugene Wigner International Award. St Petersburg University called the awarding of the prize proof of the world recognition of the achievements of Russian science, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports.
The international scientific community has recognized the Russian scientist for his fundamental contribution to the theory of quantum groups, integrable systems and their applications in statistical mechanics and quantum field theory. The award was first presented at the 34th International Colloquium on Group Theory Methods in Physics.
Nikolai Reshetikhin is a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Amsterdam and the Chinese Tsinghua University.
At St. Petersburg State University, which he graduated with a Doctor of Science in Physics and Mathematics degree, and where he currently works, they called the prize awarded to Nikolai Reshetikhin proof of the high international assessment of the achievements of the school of mathematical physics in St. Petersburg and Russia.
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