Valery Pokrovsky

Early life and education Valery Leonidovich Pokrovsky was born on 1 January 1931 to Leonid Pokrovsky and Raisa Razumovsky in the former Soviet Union, growing up during the Stalinist era and World War II. In 1948, he became a student of the Department of Physics and Mathematics of Kharkov University. Despite a politically-motivated attempt to expel him, Pokrovsky completed his master's degree, graduating from Kharkov University, Ukrainian SSR, USSR in May 1953.

Career In 1955, Yuri Rumer's rights of citizenship were restored and he began to build up his research group. In 1957, the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR was established. Rumer became Director of its Institute of Radiophysics and Pokrovsky became an academy scientist, where he remained until 1966. He was awarded the Lars Onsager Prize of the American Physical Society in 2005 "For fundamental and original contributions to statistical physics, including development of the scaling theory for correlation functions near critical points and of theories for commensurate-incommensurate phase transitions."

Selected publications A. Z. Patashinskii, V. L. Pokrovskii, Fluctuation Theory of Phase Transitions, Pergamon Press, 1979;