11 Facts About Ludvig Faddeev

Ludvig Dmitrievich Faddeev was a Soviet and Russian mathematical physicist.

Ludvig Faddeev led the Leningrad School, in which he along with many of his students developed the quantum inverse scattering method for studying quantum integrable systems in one space and one time dimension.

Ludvig Faddeev's father, Dmitry Faddeev, was a well-known algebraist, professor of Leningrad University and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Ludvig Faddeev attended Leningrad University, receiving his undergraduate degree in 1956.

Ludvig Faddeev enrolled in physics, rather than mathematics, "to be independent of [his] father".

From 1976 to 2000, Ludvig Faddeev was head of the St Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences.

Ludvig Faddeev was an invited visitor to the CERN Theory Division for the first time in 1973 and made several further visits there.

Ludvig Faddeev was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1976, and was a member of a number of foreign academies, including the US National Academy of Sciences, the French Academy of Sciences, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society.

Ludvig Faddeev received numerous honors including USSR State Prize, Dannie Heineman Prize, Dirac Prize, an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Mathematics and Science at Uppsala University, Sweden, Max Planck Medal, Demidov Prize and the State Prize of the Russian Federation.

Ludvig Faddeev was president of the International Mathematical Union.

Ludvig Faddeev was awarded the Henri Poincare Prize in 2006 and the Shaw Prize in mathematical sciences in 2008.