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Vonsovskii, Sergei V., D. PM. S. Born in August 1910 in Tashkent. Russian
physicist. He has been a corresponding member of the Academy since 1953, and an
academician since 1966 of the General Physics and Astronomy Department. He was
originally elected to General and Applied Physics Department. He graduated from
Leningrad State University in 1932, and from 1932 to 1939, he worked at the Urals
Engineering Physics Institute in Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk). From 1939 to 1947, he
worked at the Metallography Institute, and at the Physics of Metals and Metallurgy
of the Urals branch of the Academy. His principal works have dealt with the theory
of the magnetic and electric properties of metals and semiconductors, the theory of
ferromagnetism, and the theory of superconductivity. He proposed the so-called
polar mode (with S. P. Shubin) and the s-d model of ferromagnetics. On the basis
of these models, Vonsovskii and his colleagues constructed a general theory of
ferromagnetics close to the Curie point, and he has explained fractional atomic
moments and some characteristics of kinetic properties as well as describing the
effect of the multiplicity of the magnetic ions of these substances. Since 1967, he
has been Deputy Director of the Metals Physics Institute in Ekaterinburg
(Sverdlovsk). From 1971 to 1986, he served as Chairman of the Urals Scientific
Center. In 1988, he was appointed an advisor to the Academy's Presidium. He
received the Laureate S. N. Vavilov Gold Medal for physics in 1982. (GSE vol. 31,
p. 315, and vol. 5, p. 590.)
Zakharchenia Boris P., C. PM. S. Born in 1928 in Orsha, now Vitebsk Oblast.
Russian physicist. Corresponding member since 1976; academician in 1993. He
graduated from Leningrad State University in 1952, and joined the staff of the
Physico-Technical Institute of the academy. Since 1967, he has been the Chief of the
Magneto-optical and Electro-optical Phenomena in Crystals Laboratory of the A. F.
Ioffe Physical Technical Institute in St. Petersburg. In 1972, he became of professor
at the Leningrad Electrical Engineering Institute. His works are in the optics of
solids. Lenin Prize, 1966; Recipient of the State Prize, 1976. (GSE 30, p. 740.)
Zakharov, Vladimir E., D. PM. S. Corresponding member since 1984; academician in
1993. Since 1977, he has been Chief of the Plasma Physics Laboratory of the L. D.
Landau Theoretical Physics Institute in Moscow. He is currently the President of the
Russian Scientific Council on the Problems of "Nonlinear Dynamics."
Zhurkov, Serafim N., D. PM. S. Born in May 1905 in the village of Trubitkino,
Lebedian District, Tambov Province. Russian physicist. He has been a
corresponding member of the Academy since 1958, and an academician since 1968.
He graduated from the University of Voronezh in 1929, and in 1930, began
working at the Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute. He became a professor at
Leningrad State University in 1947. His work has dealt primarily with the
mechanical properties of solids and polymers. He has studied the nature of the
strength of brittle materials and polymers and the general regularities governing the
processes of temperature-dependent mechanical breakdown and the duration of the
action of mechanical stress. He has studied the vitrification process of polymers and
amorphous substances. He has also developed a theory of the plasticization of
polymers. (GSE 9, p. 652.)
Corresponding Members
Abalakin, Viktor K., D. PM. S., Born in 1930. Corresponding member since
December 1987. Since 1970 he has been Chief of the Astronomical Yearbook
Department of the Theoretical Astronomy Institute in St. Petersburg. Since 1984, he
has served as Director of the Main Astronomical Observatory in St. Petersburg that
studies celestial mechanics and gravimetrics. (LDA 89-11378.)
Afrosimov, Vadim V., D. PM S. Born in 1930. Physicist. Corresponding member
since December 1987. Since 1972, he has served as Chief of the Atomic Collision
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