Alexander Patashinski Scientist

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