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Leonid Keldysh

Leonid Keldysh
Native name Leonid Veniaminovich Keldysh
Born (1931-04-07)7 April 1931
Moscow
Died 12 November 2016(2016-11-12) (aged 85)
Moscow
Citizenship Russian
Fields Theoretical physics
Institutions Lebedev Physical Institute
Known for Keldysh formalism
Notable awards Rusanoprize (2009)

Leonid Keldysh (7 April 1931 – 11 November 2016) was a Russian physicist. Keldysh was a professor in the I.E. Tamm Theory division of the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He was known for the Keldysh formalism, a quantum mechanics framework for describing a system in a non-equilibrium state. In 2009 he was awarded the Rusnanoprize, an international nanotechnology award, for his work related to molecular beam epitaxy.



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