Nobel-prize winning Russian physicist Vitaly Ginzburg dies at 93

Nobel-prize Russian physicist Vitaly Ginzburg dies

MOSCOW — Vitaly Ginzburg, a Nobel-prize winning Russian physicist and one of the fathers of Soviet hydrogen bomb, has died in Moscow. He was 93.

The Russian Academy of Sciences says Ginzburg died late Sunday of a cardiac arrest.

Ginzburg won the 2003 Nobel Prize in physics for his contribution to theories on superconductivity, the ability of some materials to conduct electricity without resistance.

In the early 1950s, Ginzburg was part of the Soviet government project to develop a hydrogen bomb.

Ginzburg strongly opposed the growing role of Russian Orthodox Church in state affairs after the Soviet collapse, protesting its attempts to have a say in political and secular matters and introduce religious lessons in schools.