Person
Flambaum, Victor V. (1951 - )
FAA
- Born
- 20 November 1951
Omsk, Russia - Occupation
- Physicist
Summary
Victor Flambaum is Professor and Head of the Theoretical Physics Department at the University of New South Wales. Much of his early professional life was spent in his home land of Russia at the Novosibirksk University and at Universities and Institutes in the United Sates of America where he held many visiting scientist appointments. Flambaum moved to Australia in 1991 to take up his current post where he and his co-workers have produced important results in atomic physics and nuclear physics, particularly in the area of violation of fundamental symmetries of the nucleus, which have opened up new areas of research. Flambaum has also developed a new statistical theory which is applicable to compound nuclei, complex excited atoms and atomic clusters. Taken in part from the Australian Academy of Science Newsletter, No. 47, May-August 2000. In 2015 Flambaum was awarded the New South Wales Premier's Prize for Excellence in Mathematics, Earth Sciences, Chemistry and Physics.
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Chronology
- 1974
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), Novosibirsk University in Russia
- 1974 - 1991
- Career position - Assistant Scientist (later Lead Scientist) at the Institute for Nuclear Physics of USSR Academy of Science at Novosibirsk University
- 1975 - 1991
- Career position - Assistant then Professor and Docent at the Novosibirsk State University
- 1978
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Novosibirsk University
- 1981
- Award - USSR Academy of Science (Siberian Division) Award received
- 1983
- Award - Lenin Komosomol Prize for Science received
- 1987
- Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), Novosibirsk University
- 1990 - 1991
- Career position - Visiting Fellow at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado, USA
- 1991 -
- Career position - Professor and Chair of the Department, University of New South Wales
- 1991
- Career position - Visiting Fellow, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California, California, U.S.A.
- 1991
- Life event - Settled in Australia
- 1992
- Award - Fellow, Australian Institute of Physics (FAIP)
- 1996
- Career position - Visiting Fellow, Harvard University and Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- 2000 -
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
- 2000
- Award - Templeton Award, U.S.A. International
- 2001
- Award - Centenary Medal For service to Australian society and science in atomic and nuclear physics
- 2002 -
- Career position - Scientia Professor, University of New South Wales
- 2002
- Award - Centenary Medal, Australian Government
- 2003 -
- Career position - Scientia Professor, University of New South Wales
- 2003 - 2004
- Career position - Visiting Scientist at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- 2004 - 2006
- Career position - Member, National Committee for Physics, Australian Academy of Science
- 2005
- Award - Award for Research Excellence in Science, University of New South Wales
- 2005
- Award - Argonne Fellowship received
- 2005 - 2014
- Award - Australian Professorial Fellowship
- 2009
- Award - Walter Boas Medal, Australian Institute of Physics
- 2009
- Award - Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal, Australian Academy of Science
- 2010 -
- Award - Fellow, American Physical Society
- 2010 -
- Award - Fellow, American Physical Society
- 2012
- Award - Eureka Prize for Scientific Research
- 2012
- Award - Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
- 2013 -
- Award - Fellow, Royal Society of New South Wales
- 2013 -
- Career position - Member, The Foundation Questions Institute
- 2015
- Award - Prize for Excellence in Mathematics, Earth Sciences, Chemistry or Physics, New South Wales Premier's Prizes in Science
- 2017 -
- Award - Fellow, Institute of Physics, United Kingdom
Related entries
Published resources
Journal Articles
- Anon, '2009 Walter Boas Medal [awarded to Victor Flambaum]', Australian Physics, 46 (6) (2009), 163. http://aip.org.au/wp-content/uploads/Australian%20Physics/Aust%20Phys%2046-4.pdf. Details
- Anon, 'Humboldt Research Award to Victor Flambaum', Australian Physics, 50 (2) (2013), 44, http://aip.org.au/wp-content/uploads/Australian%20Physics/Aust%20Phys%2050-2.pdf. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q61888142. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/311376227. Details
- Flambaum, Victor, Curriculum vitae, New Zealand Institute of Advanced Studies, 2013?. http://www.nzias.ac.nz/Docs/VictorFlambaum/VictorFlambaum_CV.pdf. Details
- 'Flambaum, Victor V. (19511120-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476338. Details
See also
- Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal, Australian Academy of Science, Canberra, 2023. https://www.science.org.au/supporting-science/awards-and-opportunities/thomas-ranken-lyle-medal. Details
Annette Alafaci and Helen Cohn
Created: 19 October 2005, Last modified: 1 October 2019