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Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov is a Russian-born theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics.

He received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics with fellow Russian Vitaly Ginzburg and Anthony Leggett of the UK. Born in Moscow in 1928, Abrikosov left high school in 1943 and entered the Institute for Power Engineers, but transferred in 1945 to the Moscow State University to study physics.

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He gained his MSc in 1948 and was accepted into the Institute for Physical Problems (now PL Kapitza Institute), where he studied under Lev Landau (who received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1962 and is considered one of the top theorists of all time) and gained a PhD in 1951.

Around 1950, Landau, with Vitaly Ginzburg, produced a mathematical theory used to model supercon- ductivity. (Superconductors are materials which at low temperatures offer zero electrical resistance. They are used, for example, in magnetic ima