Russian physicist Ginzburg dies at 94

MOSCOW, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Russian physicist Vitaly Ginzburg, who won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2003, has died in Moscow at the age of 94, officials said Monday.

A spokeswoman for the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences told RIA Novosti that Ginzburg died on Sunday after suffering a heart attack, which followed a long illness.

A funeral for Ginzburg, the author of 12 books and around 400 scientific articles, was set for Wednesday or Thursday.

The Russian news service said Ginzburg was born in Moscow and was awarded the State Stalin Prize in 1953 and the Lenin Prize in 1966 for his contributions to the development of the Soviet Union's nuclear arsenal.

His Nobel prize came for "pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids." RIA Novosti said he shared it with Russian theoretical physicist Alexei Abrikosov and British-born American physicist Anthony James Leggetthe.