Alexey A. Petrov
Alexey A Petrov | |
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| Born | 1971 (age 54–55) |
| Alma mater | Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Known for | Heavy quark physics |
| Awards | Fellow of the American Physical Society, NSF CAREER Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins University, Cornell University, Wayne State University |
| Doctoral advisor | John F Donoghue |
Alexey A Petrov is an American physicist known for his theoretical research in the area of physics of heavy quarks. Petrov is a USC Endowed Chair in Physics and the chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of South Carolina. Previously he was a professor of physics at Wayne State University. He is the first particle theorist in the State of Michigan to receive National Science Foundation's CAREER award