Lev Petrovich Gorkov (born 14.06.1929) is a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1966). He was born in Moscow. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1953). In 1955—66 he worked at the Institute of Physical Problems of the USSR Academy of Sciences and at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and from 1966 he has been head of a department at the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences and also professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
His research has concerned the theory of solids, the theory of superconductivity, the quantum liquid, quantum mechanics, and hydrodynamics and gas dynamics. In 1958, together with A. A. Abrikosov and I. M. Khalatnikov, he developed the theory of the behaviour of superconductors in a high-frequency field, and in 1960, with Abrikosov, a phenomenological theory of superconductors containing an impurity of magnetic atoms, and predicted gapless superconductivity. He formulated (1958 — 59) the microscopic theory of superconductivity by means of Green's functions. In 1968 — 70, together with G. M. Eliashberg, he constructed a microscopic theory of non-stationary processes in superconductors. He developed new effective methods of calculation in quantum statistics and solved a number of problems in physical hydrodynamics, in particular constructing a nonlinear solution of the problem of plane convection. The Lenin Prize (1966).