Moscow State University Faculty of Physics

The Fizfak (Faculty of Physics) of Moscow State University is one of the most esteemed faculties of Moscow State University, widely regarded by students as one of the toughest faculties in the university. It was established in 1933. The current dean of the faculty - Nikolay Sysoev.

Departments of the faculty

• Department of experimental and theoretical physics
• Department of the physics of solid bodies
• Department of radiophysics and electronics
• Department of nuclear physics
• Department of geophysics
• Department of astronomy
• Department of additional educating programs

Notable alumni

Nobel winners

• Igor Tamm (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1958)
• Ilya Frank (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1958)
• Lev Davidovich Landau (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1962)
• Andrei Sakharov (Nobel Peace Prize, 1975)
• Vitaly Ginzburg (Nobel Prize in Physics, 2003)
• Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (Nobel Prize in Physics, 2003)

Physicists

• Sergei Kurdyumov
• Stanislav Mikheyev
• Dmitry Shirkov
• Alexei Smirnov
• Igor Ternov
• Sergei Tyablikov
• Sergey Vavilov
• Anatoly Vlasov
• Georgiy Zatsepin
• Dmitry Zubarev
• Roald Sagdeev
• Andrei Linde
• Alexei Starobinsky
• Rem Khokhlov
• Oleg Leonidovich Kuznetsov
• Slava Turyshev

Educationists

• Georgy Shchedrovitsky

Businessmen

• Oleg Deripaska
• Yuri Milner

Artists

• Natalia Sokol

External links

• Official site (in English)

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