Alexander Nikolayevich Skrinsky (born 15.1 1936) — a Soviet physicist, an academician (1970; corresponding member 1968). Born in Orenburg. He graduated from Moscow University (1959) and from that year has worked at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences (director from 1977) and at the same time from 1967 has been professor at Novosibirsk University.
His main scientific research was in accelerator physics and technology and high-energy physics, in particular the development of the colliding-beam method, the creation of installations with colliding electron—electron, electron—positron and proton—antiproton beams, and experiments in elementary-particle physics on these installations. In 1967 he was awarded the Lenin Prize for taking part in the development of the colliding-beam method. Together with others he developed methods of obtaining and controlling the polarisation of beams in storage rings and the method of electron cooling, and he carries out work on the use of synchrotron radiation for research and technological purposes.