Viktor Matveev

{{short description|Russian physicist (born 1941)}}

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|name = Viktor Anatolievich Matveev

|image =Victor Matveyev 2018-06-27.jpg

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|caption = Victor Matveyev at award ceremonies 27 Jun 2018, Kremlin, Moscow.

|birth_name = Viktor Anatolievich Matveev

|birth_date = {{nobreak| {{birth date|df=yes|1941|11|11}} }}

|birth_place = Taiga Village, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia

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|citizenship = Russia
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

|fields = Particle physics, Theoretical Physics Mathematical Physics, Quantum field theory, High energy physics{{Cite web |url=http://wwwnew.jinr.ru/section.asp?sd_id=357&language=eng |title=JINR. Victor A. Matveev |access-date=2020-10-25 |archive-date=2020-10-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028213240/http://wwwnew.jinr.ru/section.asp?sd_id=357&language=eng |url-status=dead }}

|workplaces = Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and Moscow State University
Institute for Nuclear Research
{{Cite web|url=http://wwwinfo.jinr.ru/Matveev_e.htm|title=V. Matveev - CURRICULUM VITAE|website=Info.jinr.ru|access-date=11 November 2021}}Fermilab
{{Cite web|url=http://www.inr.ru/matveev/|title=ИЯИ РАН - страница академика В.А.Матвеева|website=Inr.ru|access-date=11 November 2021}}

|education =

|alma_mater = Far Eastern Federal University
Leningrad State University

|doctoral_advisor = Nikolay Bogolyubov, Albert Tavkhelidze

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|awards = Lenin Prize(1988),{{Cite web |url=https://new-eng.mephi.ru/departments/11 |title=Department of Instrumentation in Nuclear Physics | National Research Nuclear University "MEPhI" |access-date=2021-03-14 |archive-date=2018-12-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181216210327/http://new-eng.mephi.ru/departments/11 |url-status=dead }} State Prize of the Russian Federation(1998),(2000), Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"(IV degree, III degree), Order of Honour (1999)
Honorary Citizen of Troitsk (2001)
Honorary Doctorate at University of Bucharest(2018)
{{Cite web|url=https://unibuc.ro/academician-victor-matveev-from-unified-nuclear-research-institute-dubna-doctor-honoris-causa-of-university-of-bucharest/?lang=en|title=Academician Victor Matveev from Unified Nuclear Research Institute Dubna, Doctor Honoris Causa of University of Bucharest|website=Unibuc.ro|date=26 November 2018|access-date=11 November 2021}}

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Viktor Anatolievich Matveev ({{langx|ru|Ви́ктор Анато́льевич Матве́ев}}; 11 December 1941) is a Russian theoretical physicist, director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (2012-2020) and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences who has made fundamental contributions to areas of Particle physics, Theoretical Physics Mathematical Physics, Quantum field theory and High energy physics.