Career
- After graduating Moscow University in 1952, he went to work with the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He was there from 1952 to 1983. In 1983 he became Head of Laboratory of Magnetic Materials in the A.M. Prokhorov Institute of General Physics. As of July 2010 he is still listed in this position.
- In 1980 he became a professor of applied physics for the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. As of 2007, he had maintained this position. Moreover, he has been noted to be mainly interested in the sciences of magnetism, solid-state physics, and electrodynamics.
- Besides notable work establishing and publishing the theory of negative refraction in electrodynamics from 1966 to 1972 he is a winner of the State Prize for science of USSR (1976), and a winner of the academician V.A. Fock prize (2004), and an Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (2002). Currently (2007), he is actively involved as an expert for the Russian Foundation for Fundamental Research, the Russian Foundation for Humanitarian Research, and he is the vice-chairman of the physics department of the Supreme Attestation Committee of Russia (VAK). He is a founder and vice-editor of the electronic, Russian scientific journal " Исследовано в России, for which the English translation is "Investigated in Russia".
- V. Veselago is married and has three daughters along with one son. His favorite animal is a female cat named Fifa. His notable hobby is real railways, not hobby sets.
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