Vitaly Ginzburg dies at 93; Nobel Prize-winning Russian physicist

Vitaly Ginzburg, the Russian physicist who played a key role in the Soviet Union's development of the hydrogen bomb and who later won a Nobel Prize for his work on the theoretical underpinnings of superconductivity, died in Moscow late Sunday of cardiac arrest. He was 93 and had been in ill health for some time.

By Thomas H. Maugh II

November 10, 2009