Alexander Polyakov
- Born: September 27, 1945 (Moscow, Soviet Union)
Education
- 1969: PhD, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
Major Positions
- 1969–1989: Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Professor of Physics
- 1989–1999: Princeton University, Professor of Physics
- 1999–present: Princeton University, Joseph Henry Professor of Physics
Selected Awards and Honors
- 1986: American Physical Society, Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
- 2005: National Academy of Sciences, Member
- 2011: American Physical Society, Lars Onsager Prize
Published Resources
Alexander Polyakov, "A View from the Island," in The Rise of the Standard Model: Particle Physics in the 1960s and 1970s, ed. Lillian Hoddeson, Laurie Brown, Michael Riordan, and Max Dresden (New York: Cambridge University Press: 1997), 243-249
