Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Alexei Alexeevich Abrikosov (Алексей Алексеевич Абрикосов) (born June 25 1928) is a Russian theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. In particular, Abrikosov discovered the way in which magnetic flux can penetrate a superconductor. The phenomenon is known as type-II superconductivity, and the accompanying arrangement of magnetic flux lines is called the Abrikosov vortex lattice. He is currently (as of October 2003) a member of the Materials Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, USA. He was the co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, with Vitaly Ginzburg and Anthony James Leggett.\n This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.