Valentin Panteleimonovich Smirnov
# Valentin Panteleimonovich Smirnov

Valentin Panteleimonovich Smirnov (Russian: Валенти́н Пантелеи́монович Cмирно́в, b. 2 October 1937), is a Russian scientist, director of the Nuclear Fusion Institute at Kurchatov Institute, and academician (since 2003) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

## Graduation and awards

* 1961: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
* 1981: Doctor degree phys.-math science
* 1981: USSR State Prize
* 1997: State Prize of the Russian Federation
* 2002: Jesse W. Beams Research Award
* 2005: Hannes Alfvén Prize of the European Physical Society, together with Malcolm Golby Haines and Thomas Sanford, "for their major contributions to the development of the multi-wire array in Z-pinch pulse-power physics".
