DAVID ABRAMOVICH KIRZHNITS
A remarkable theoretical physicist, Russian Academy of Sciences corresponding member David Abramovich Kirzhnits (1926-1998) left us a multifaceted and brilliant scientific legacy. Basic to his scientific vision was an understanding of the unity of physics as a reflection of the unity of nature. “…This unity,” he said in his lectures for upper-level students at the Moscow State University department of physics, “emerges not only in the existence of general laws of nature, whose scope of action covers the widest range of scales – from 10−33 cm (the submicroscopic world) to 1028 cm (the Metagalaxy)… Moreover, it turns out that Nature also successfully uses specific physical mechanisms concurrently in the most diverse types of phenomena … such as the ‘superconductor’ mechanism for forming the masses of elementary particles”…
