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Inorganic Materials Department. He has also been an academician of the Physical
and Technical Problems of Materials Science Department of the Ukrainian Academy
of Sciences since 1969. Since 1975, he has served as Deputy Chairman of the
Noginsk Scientific Center. His studies are in the martensite transformations in
crystalline materials, that are of critical importance for the development of the theory
of phase transitions and for the heat treatment of steels and alloys. He and his coworkers
study the mechanism and kinetics of the transformation of austenite to
martensite. His contributions to the development of physical metallurgy and the
physics of plastic deformations are many. He has also developed a number of new
experimental methods. He has written two major monographs. He was awarded the
State Prize in 1949. In 1979, he was given the D. K. Chernov Gold Medal in
recognition of his work in physics. (GSE vol. 14, p. 123; vol. 15, p. 503; vol. 19,
p. 703; vol. 31, p. 388.)
Larkin, Anatolii I., D. PM. S. Born in 1932. Corresponding member since 1979. Since
1969; academician of the General Physics and Astronomy Department in 1993.
Chief of the Quantum Mechanics Laboratory of the L. D. Landau Theoretical
Physics Institute in Moscow, whose scientists study theoretical physics--theory of
solids, low temperature physics, elementary particle theory, plasma theory and laser
radiation.
Mesiats, Gennadii A., C. GM. S. Born in 1936. Corresponding member since 1979;
and an academician of the General Physics and Astronomy Department and of the
Siberian Department since 1984. He is also a member of the Urals Department. He
is a specialist in the fields of electronics and electrophysics. He received the Lenin
Komsomol Prize in 1968, and the Laureate State Prize in 1978. Since 1986, as
Chairman of the Urals Department, he has served as a member of the Presidium of
the Academy of Sciences of the USSR In 1988 he was named a Vice President of
the Academy of Sciences for the Urals Department. From 1977 to 1986, he served
as Director of the High Current Electronics Institute in Tomsk, which is subordinate
to the Urals Department The institute researches thermonuclear and accelerator
physics and laser technology and was created in 1977 from the High Current
Electronics laboratory of the Atmospheric Optics Institute. Since 1986, he has been
Chairman of the Urals Department, and from November of 1986 to 1988, he served
as the Director of the Electrophysics Institute in Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk) that was
established in 1986. He is currently the President of the Russian Scientific Council
on Problems of "Relativistic and Heavy-Current Electronics."
Migulin, Vladimir V., D. PM. S. Born in July 1911 in Sereda--present-day Furmanov-
-in Ivanovo Oblast. Russian radio physicist. He has been a corresponding member
of the academy since 1970, and an academician and Deputy Academician Secretary
since 1984. He graduated from Leningrad Polytechnic Institute in 1932. He worked
at the Institute of Physics of the academy from 1934 to 1941, and at the Heat
Engineering Laboratory of the academy from 1946 to 1951. From 1951-54 he was
Director of the Physico-Technical Institute in Sukhumi. He has taught at the
Moscow State University since 1935--becoming a professor in 1948--and he served
as Deputy General Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1957-
59. Since 1972, he has been Vice President of the International Radio Union. From
1969 to 1988, he served as Director of the Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere, and
Radio Wave Propagation Institute at Troitsk that was established in 1939. It is a
leading facility in the USSR for the study of magnetism and the ionosphere. It also
investigates spherics, radio astronomy, solar physics, and cosmic rays. He has
published seven major works dealing with the theory of oscillation, the propagation
of radio waves and other problems of radio physics. He was awarded State Prizes in
1946 and 1953 and has received numerous other awards of recognition for his scientific
work. He is currently one of the Deputy academician secretaries of the
General Physics and Astronomy Department of the Russian Academy. He is
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