A person of phenomenal intuition

In August 2017, 75 years old was a remarkable physicist, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dokt. physical. sciences, ch. scientific. sore. Institute of Theoretical Physics. L. D. Landau Alexander Belavin .

Jubilee - member of the club "July 1", professor of Moscow Independent University, Vedas. scientific. sore. Laboratory of Quantum Physics and Information of the Institute of Problems of Information RAS SECTIONS. In 2007, he was awarded the prize to them. Pomeranchuk 2007.

Congratulations to him from the pages of the TRV-hunger are addressed by his friend, co-author, professor of Princeton University, laureate of the Prize in Fundamental Physics Alexander Polyakov . Recall that in 2011, Lars Onsager Prize - the Award of the American Physical Society in Statistical Physics - was awarded to A. Polyakov, A. Belavin and A. Pololodchikov for the discovery of the conformal theory of field.

The expression "old friend" over time becomes ambiguous. We met Sasha half a century ago in the winding corridors of Itf, and since then our world lines have passed near each other. In those years, it began what is now called the "conformal theory of the field." This direction was extremely unpopular, but Sasha immediately became interested.

Then his phenomenal intuition on important things was manifested. This intuition, combined with general talent, made it one of the deepest scientists of our time. Modern physics and mathematical physics cannot be represented without Sashin achievements, here are abnormal dimensions, instantaneous, and integrated models, and conformal theory and much more.

A couple of years ago I arrived in Trieste and went for a walk along the sea. Some man got out of the water, and I thought that he looked like a young Belavin. Of course, he was, and when we began to discuss the last scientific news, it turned out that Sasha is my young friend.