* Astronomy

Alexei Abrikosov, Nobel Laureate in Physics and adjunct professor at the U, dies at 88.

Alexei Abrikosov, physicist at the Argonne National Laboratory who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003 for his work on superconductors, died on Wednesday, March 29 at 88 years of age. As an adjunct professor at the University of Utah, he would visit the campus to speak with researchers and give fantastic talks about growing up in Stalins USSR, studying with the famous Soviet physicist, Lev Landau, and making his Nobel Prize discovery.
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