# List of Russian physicists

This list of Russian physicists includes the famous physicists from the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation.

## Alphabetical list

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• Nikolay Basov, physicist, co-inventor of laser and maser, Nobel Prize winner
• Nikolay Bogolyubov, mathematician and theoretical physicist,co-developed the BBGKY hierarchy, formulated a microscopic theory of superconductivity, suggested a triplet quark model, introduced a new quantum degree of freedom (color charge)
• Dima Bolmatov, co-creator of the phonon theory of liquids. Discovered with colleagues a new state of matter: in the very wide pressure range liquid helium near melting temperature is both solid-like and quantum. Discovered with colleagues universal scaling behavior of supercritical matter, derived the relationship between scaling exponents of heat capacity and viscosity in the supercritical region.
• Matvei Petrovich Bronstein, theoretical physicist, a pioneer of quantum gravity, author of works in astrophysics, semiconductors, quantum electrodynamics and cosmology.
• Gersh Budker, inventor of electron cooling, co-inventor of collider