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Vladimir Iosifovich Veksler (; ; March 4, 1907 – September 22, 1966) was a Soviet experimental physicist who invented the microtron. He was head of the Nuclear Physics Department of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.
In 1956 he established and became the first director of the Laboratory of High Energy at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, where the Synchrophasotron, that, along with an accelerator at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino, incorporated the largest circular proton accelerators in the world at their time, was constructed under his leadership.
From 1946 to 1957, he was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. Veksler became a full member of the Academy in 1958. In 1963 he was appointed head of the Nuclear Physics Department of the Academy. In 1965, Veksler established the journal Nuclear Physics ( Yadernaya Fizika) and became its first editor-in-chief.
The Russian Academy of Sciences established in 1994 the V. I. Veksler Prize for outstanding achievement in accelerator physics (and in 1991 awarded the V. I. Veksler Gold Medal to Alexander N. Skrinsky). Streets in Dubna, Odesa, Zhytomyr and CERN are named in Veksler's honour.
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