Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, ForMemRS[1] (Roushie: Вита́лий Ла́заревич Ги́нзбург; October 4, 1916 – November 8, 2009) wis a Soviet an Roushie theoretical pheesicist, astropheesicist, Nobel laureate, a member o the Soviet an Roushie Academies o Sciences an ane o the faithers o the Soviet hydrogen bomb.[2][3] He wis the successor tae Igor Tamm as heid o the Depairtment o Theoretical Pheesics o the Lebedev Pheesical Institute o the Roushie Academy o Sciences (FIAN), an an ootspoken atheist.[4]