Vladimir Iosifovich Petviashvili (''Петвиашвили Владимир Иосифович''; September 12, 1936 – July 21, 1993) was a Soviet physicist from Georgia. Petviashvili graduated from Tbilisi State University in 1959, where he also completed his doctoral studies. In 1963–1965, he was research assistant at the Institute of Physics of the Andronikashvili Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR. Since 1965 he worked at the Kurchatov Institute (Institute of Atomic Energy named after I.V. Kurchatov) and at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. In 1992, Petviashvili received the I. Tamm Prize for a series of works on Turbulence and eddy current structures in plasma.
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Vladimir Iosifovich Petviashvili (''Петвиашвили Владимир Иосифович''; September 12, 1936 – July 21, 1993) was a Soviet physicist from Georgia. Petviashvili graduated from Tbilisi State University in 1959, where he also completed his doctoral studies. In 1963–1965, he was research assistant at the Institute of Physics of the Andronikashvili Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR. Since 1965 he worked at the Kurchatov Institute (Institute of Atomic Energy named after I.V. Kurchatov) and at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. In 1992, Petviashvili received the I. Tamm Prize for a series of works on Turbulence and eddy current structures in plasma.
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