Mikhail Lukin — physicist with roots in the USSR
Mikhail Lukin is a Russian-American physicist and professor at Harvard University who is one of the world's foremost experts in quantum optics and quantum information science. Co-director of the Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms, his work on quantum computing and quantum networks is among the most cited in physics.
Tracing the roots — Russia
Born and educated in Russia before emigrating to the United States, Lukin is a product of the Soviet physics tradition that produced so many world-class scientists. At Harvard, he has become one of the most influential figures in the rapidly advancing field of quantum computing — a field where Russian-trained scientists are disproportionately represented.
Russia. At the time, this region was one of the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union.