Vainshtein was born on 24 February 1942 in
Novokuznetsk, Russia. He got his Ph.D. from
Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in
Novosibirsk, Russia and master's degree from
Novosibirsk University where he became a Professor. He was the director of
William I Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota where he currently serves as the Gloria Becker Lubkin chair and two years later was awarded
Sakurai Prize. In 2004 he started to work for
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in
Santa Barbara,
California, and a year later was awarded
Pomeranchuk Prize from the
Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics,
Moscow. and the 2016
Dirac Medal of the ICTP. ==See also==