Tavkhelidze Albert

Tavkhelidze Albert (1930–2010), Physicist, Academician of the Acad emy of Sciences of Georgia (1974), Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation (1990). He was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 1953 he graduated from the Faculty of Physics of Tbilisi State University. In 1956-70 he worked in the city of Dubna: initially he filled the position of the Head of the Department of the Joint Institute of Nuclear Researches; later – Deputy Director of the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics. At the same time, in 1963-70, A. Tavkhelidze headed the Sector of Theoretical Physics at the Institute of High-Energy Physics in the city of Serpukovo (Moscow District). From 1970 he discharged the functions of the Director of the Institute of Nuclear Researches of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and Professor of Moscow State University. In 1986-2005 he held the post of the President of the Academy of Sciences of Georgia. A. Tavkhelidze actively participated in building and outfitting of Baksan neutrino observatory and founding of the High-Energy Physics Institute of of Tbilisi State University. A. Tavkhelidze works covered the key issues of quantum field theory and elementary-particle physics. He was the laureate of the State Prize of the USSR (1973), the Lenin Prize (1986), the Prize of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine named after N. Bogolyubov (1996), the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1998). He was nominated for the laureate of Nobel Prize.

From 2005 Albert Tavkhelidze lived in Moscow and died there.