Re:Benefitted the mankind? (Score 2, Informative)

Great reply, dummkopf (I *hate* calling you that, but it's your moniker ;-). I worked in Abrikosovs group at Argonne from 1994-1996 as a graduate student - and I was then an experimentalist, working on imaging in real time the magnetic vortices he had predicted in the 1950s. The man was in my lab *often* and nearly every day he communicates with the experimentalists. He is a true physicist of the old school: keeping his hands in both theoretical and expermental aspects. How foolish for anyone to criticize this man's work as being lofty theoretical stuff (a term I hear often).