Vadim Alekseyevich Kuzmin (Russian: Вади́м
Алексе́евич Кузьми́н; 16
April 1937 – 17 September 2015) was a Russian
theoretical physicist.
== Biography ==
Kuzmin completed his undergraduate studies
in 1961 at Moscow State University and his
PhD in 1971 at Lebedev Institute.
He has been a member of the Institute for
Nuclear Research in Moscow since its founding
in 1970.
There, he became a professor and chair of
the department of particle astrophysics and
cosmology.
In 1987, he obtained the Russian doctoral
title.
In 1966, he and Georgiy Zatsepin predicted
(what is now called) the GZK limit for cosmic
rays.In neutrino physics, he proposed an experiment
using gallium/germanium detectors to detect
low-energy solar neutrinos.
In 1970, he proposed neutron/antineutron oscillations
as a possibility for observing violation of
baryon number.
Also in 1970, he independently discovered
the Sakharov conditions.
In the 1980s, he was a pioneer in the theory
of electroweak baryogenesis.
In 1985, his influential work with Valery
Rubakov and Mikhail Shaposhnikov estimated
the rate of anomalous electroweak process
that violated baryon-number conservation in
the cosmic plasma of the early universe.In
1999 the Russian Academy of Sciences awarded
Kuzmin and Rubakov the Friedmann Prize "for
a series of works on the formation of the
baryon asymmetry of the universe".In 2000,
he became a corresponding member of the Russian
Academy of Sciences.
In 2003, he received the Institute for Nuclear
Research Markov Prize for his contributions
to neutrino physics.
In 2006, he received the Pomeranchuk Prize
"for his pioneering work on baryon-number
violating processes, baryogenesis, and on
the fundamental properties of high-energy
cosmic rays", together with Howard Georgi
