1. Valery Anatolyevich Rubakov was a Russian theoretical physicist.
17 Facts About Valery Rubakov
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Valery Rubakov was affiliated with the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
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Valery Rubakov subsequently began doctoral work at the INR, completing his thesis in 1981.
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Valery Rubakov was among the best known of contemporary Russian physical theorists, notable for his studies of the cosmological effects of gauge interactions and for the development of novel ideas of space-time and gravity.
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Valery Rubakov first came to prominence for monopole catalysis of proton decay, a remarkable insight on contemporary field theory.
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Valery Rubakov pointed out such a monopole would induce proton decay, leaving an observable footprint in the form of electron neutrinos.
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Together with Mikhail Shaposhnikov, Valery Rubakov was one of the first to model spacetime and gravity using ideas from brane cosmology.
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Valery Rubakov was the author of a well-regarded textbook on field theory.
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Valery Rubakov served as a member of the CERN Scientific Policy Committee from 2014 to 2019 and the ICTP Scientific Council from 2010 to 2020.
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Valery Rubakov was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1998.
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Valery Rubakov was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015.
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Valery Rubakov received the 2003 ITEP Pomeranchuk Prize "for pioneering contribution [sic] to developing and novel application of nonperturbative methods in field theory".
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The award was presented as part of a celebration of 50 years of teaching and research in particle physics at Karlsruhe, at which Valery Rubakov gave a lecture entitled "Towards understanding the origin of inhomogeneities in the Universe".
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In 2016 Valery Rubakov was awarded the Demidov Prize "for fundamental theoretical contributions to the foundations of physics: quantum field theory, elementary particle physics, gravity, the theory of the early universe".
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In February 2022, Valery Rubakov signed an open letter by Russian scientists condemning the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Valery Rubakov died on 18 October 2022, at age 67, following complications from COVID-19 that he had contracted in September.
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Valery Rubakov had been in Sarov at the time of his death, lecturing.