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Osip’ian, (Osipian) Iurii A., D. PM. S. Born in 1931 in Moscow. Russian physicist.
Vice President of the Academy since 1988. He has been a corresponding member of
the General Physics and Astronomy Department of the Academy since 1972; and,
an academician since 1981. He graduated from Moscow Institute of Steel in 1955.
From 1955 to 1962 he was on the staff of the Institute of metal physics of the
Central Scientific Research Institute of Ferrous Metallurgy. From 1962-63 he was
Deputy Director of the Crystallography Institute of the Academy. In 1970 he was
appointed professor at the Moscow Physico-Technical Institute. His main work has
been in solid state physics. He has investigated the interaction of dislocations and
electrons in solids and discovered new phenomena in solids, for example: the photo
plastic effect, electron paramagnetic resonance in dislocations, and dislocation conductivity.
His work forms the basis of a new field--"dislocation solid state physics."
Since 1973, he has been Director of the Solid State Physics Institute in Moscow that
was created in 1962 and whose main branch is in Chernogolovka. It does research
in the fields of crystallography, high pressure physics, metallurgy, semiconductors,
superconductors, and magnetic fields. He was co-winner of the 1978 Lenin Prize
for studies on "New Means of Synthesis and Study of the Structure of Organic
Phosphorus Compounds" (1954-75.) In 1984, he was given the P. N. Lebedev
Gold Medal by the Presidium of the Academy for his contributions to physics. (GSE
30, p. 600.)
Petrov, Rem V., D. Chem. S. Born in 1930. Vice President of the Academy for the
Biological Sciences since 1988. Academician of the Biochemistry, Biophysics, and
Chemistry of Physiologically y Active Compounds Department since 1984. Also
academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences. In 1978, he was awarded the I. I.
Mechnikov Prize in biology. In 1987, he received the I. I. Mechnikov Gold Medal
in recognition of his contributions to the chemical and biological sciences. He heads
the Immunology Division of the M. M. Shmiakin Bioorganic Chemistry Institute in
Moscow, which has 18 laboratories. He also heads up the Science-Educational
Center of the Institute.
Velikhov, Evgenii P., D. PM. S. Born in 1935 in Moscow. Russian theoretical
physicist. Since 1974, he has been an academician of the General Physics and
Astronomy Department of the Academy and since 1984, he has acted as
Academician Secretary of the Information Science, Computer Technology, and
Automation Department of the Academy. He graduated from Moscow State
University in 1958 and began working in the Institute of Atomic Energy becoming
Head of one of its departments in 1962. He has been a professor at Moscow State
University since 1968. From 1971 to 1988, he served as Deputy Director of the I.
V. Kurchatov Atomic Energy Institute in Moscow. In 1988, he was named Director
of this important institute that was created in 1943 to develop nuclear weapons. It is
the largest institute in Russia that concentrates on nuclear research that includes all
aspects of atomic energy, including plasma and solid state physics, fission and
fusion reactors, and lasers. The institute was directly subordinate to the State
Committee for Utilization of Atomic Energy. Since 1977, he has served as Vice
President for the Physical and Mathematical Sciences Section of the Academy.
Since 1978, he has headed the Geophysical Laboratory of the High Temperatures
Institute in Moscow, and has served as a member of the Board of the General
assembly of the GKNT. Since 1984, he has been Deputy Director for science of the
Industrial Lasers Scientific Research Center in Troitsk subordinate to the Academy.
The center is comprised of scientific research divisions, a design bureau, and an
experimental production facility that develops and introduces laser tools and methods
into industry. His works are in low-temperature physics, plasma and magnetic
hydrodynamics. Since 1984, he has also served as a Deputy Director for science of
the Archive of the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. In 1986, he was the
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