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MINNEAPOLIS - Anatoly Larkin, a University of Minnesota researcher whose work led to advances in the understanding of theoretical physics, died Thursday. He was 72.
The university said in a news release that Larkin died unexpectedly in Aspen, Colo., where he was attending a workshop. He had joined the University of Minnesota faculty in 1995 after a career at several institutions in his native Russia.
Larkin was best known for research into condensed matter theory, particularly superconductivity, which is the ability some metals have to conduct electricity without resistance at very low temperatures.
The school said his research also was key to the study of one-dimensional systems and clusters that are used in the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
Larkin was considered a founding father of the renowned Russian school of theoretical physics. Many of his former students hold leading academic positions at universities and institutes both in Russia and the Western world.
Larkin published more than 50 papers during his 10 years in Minnesota, as well as the 600-page "Theory of Fluctuations in Superconductors."
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