Alexander Patashinski
| Alexander Patashinski | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Russia, United States |
| Alma mater | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology |
| Known for | Theoretical physics |
| Awards | Landau Prize of the USSR Academy of Sciences |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions |
Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics Novosibirsk State University Northwestern University |
| Doctoral advisor | Lev Landau |
Alexander Zakharovich Patashinski (Russian: Александр Захарович Паташинский, other spellings of his name are Patashinskii, Patashinsky, Potashinsky) is a Research Professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He is known for his contributions in many parts of the theoretical physics, including phase transition and critical phenomena, high energy physics, general relativity, amorphous materials. The announcement for the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics, which was awarded to Kenneth G. Wilson, acknowledges Patashinski, along with B. Widom, Michael Fisher, Valery Pokrovsky, and Leo Kadanoff, for important contributions to the theory of critical phenomena and renormalization group. In 1983, Patashinski and Pokrovsky received the Landau Prize of the Academy of Sciences of USSR for these contributions
Patashinski studied low temperature physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He then pursued graduate studies in high energy physics at the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics and the Kapitza Institute in Moscow, and from 1961 at the Institute of Thermophysics in Novosibirsk Academgorodok. In 1962 and 1963, Patashinski, in collaboration with Valery Pokrovsky and Isaak Khalatnikov, studied quasi-classical scattering in three dimensions using Regge theory. He defended his PhD thesis (scientific advisor Lev Landau) in Quantum Field Theory in 1963. Between 1963 and 1965, together with Valery Pokrovsky, Patashinski developed scaling theory of phase transitions. In 1965-1972 he applied this theory to a wide range of phase transition problems, including electric conductivity, brownian motion, nucleations in near-critical systems. In 1968 Patashinski defended his DSc (Habilitation) dissertation on scaling theory of critical points. He subsequently worked on the theory of gravitational collapse, the theory of turbulence, high-energy hadron-nucleus collisions, nonequilibrium critical phenomena, liquids, glasses, polymers, and other subjects.
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