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Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, ForMemRS was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, Nobel laureate, a member of the Soviet and Russian Academies of Sciences and one of the fathers of Soviet hydrogen bomb. He was the successor to Igor Tamm as head of the Department of Theoretical Physics of the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and an outspoken atheist. He was also known as supporter of the State of Israel and as person valuing his secular Jewish identity.
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October 4th, 1916 in Moscow / Died: Nov 8th, 2009 - aged 93
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2009/11/09
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2009/11/09
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2008/07/06
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