What is Grigory E. Volovik?
{{EngvarB|date=July 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2017}} {{Infobox scientist |name = Prof. Grigory. E. Volovik |image = |image_size = 250px |caption = Grigory. E. Volovik in Low Temperature Laboratory, the background is Cryostat of ROTA He3 group | website = {{URL|https://www.aalto.fi/people/grigori-volovik}}}} '''Grigory Efimovich Volovik''' ({{Lang-ru|Григорий Ефимович Воловик}}; born 7 September 1946 in [[Moscow]]) is a Russian theoretical physicist. He is known for his work on [[solid-state physics]] and [[astroparticle physics]]. His series work in 1970s-2000s about [[semi metal]] and [[topologically protected spinor/femionic excitations]] in [[topological defects]] and boundary are paid enormous amount attentions in recent decade years because the discoveries about the topological solid state materials and potentially technical application on quantum computation. He also contributes a lot on [[emergent quantum field theory]] and [[gravity theory]], one idea is phenomenological Q theory of cosmological constant problem. == Life == Volovik completed his master's degree at the Physico-Technical Institute in [[Moscow]]. In 1973 he went to the Landau Institute in Moscow, becoming Senior scientist in 1992. He completed his [[PhD]] in 1973 with a [[thesis]] called the ''Dynamics of a particle strongly interacting with a Bose System. In ''1981, his [[habilitation]] (Russian doctor degree) was on ''the Topology of defects in condensed matter''. In 1993, he was made Professor at the laboratory for low temperature physics of the Technical University of Helsinki (today's [[Aalto University]]), but still worked at the Landau Institute. In 1992, he received the Landau prize of the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]]. In 2004, he received the Simon Memorial Award in low-temperature physics for his ''fundamental research on the role of symmetry in low-temperature physics, and applications in Cosmology, quantum gravity, quantum field theory and particle physics'' (Eulogy).<ref>{{Cite web |url=h