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Originally elected to the Physical and Mathematical Sciences Department. Principal
membership in the General Physics and Astronomy Department. Member of the
Presidium of the academy since 1957. Since 1946, he has been of the Astrophysics
Observatory at Biurakan. He was made Director at age 38 and became President of
the academy at age 39. He was made an academician of the Nuclear Physics
Department of the AN SSSR in 1953. Since 1947, he has been a professor at the
University of Erevan. In 1988, he was appointed advisor to the national academy's
Presidium. He was on the editorial board of Science in Russia. He founded the
quantitative theory of emission of gaseous nebulae and developed the fundamentals
of the statistical mechanics of stellar systems showing that stellar clusters decay
gradually through the loss of individual stars and he estimated cluster ages on that
basis. He discovered stellar associations in 1947, solving some fundamental
problems in cosmogony. He founded the Biurakan observatory of the Armenian
academy in 1946 and has been its permanent Director. State Prizes, 1946 and 1950.
(GSE 1, p. 327.)
Baldin, Aleksandr M., D. PM. S. Born in 1926 in Moscow. Russian physicist.
Academician since 1981. He graduated in 1949 from Moscow Physical Engineering
Institute where he became a professor in 1965. From 1949 to 1968, he served on
the staff of the Institute of Physics of the AN SSSR. In 1968, he was appointed
Director of the High Energy Laboratory of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
in Dubna. His works include electromagnetic interactions of elementary particles
and atomic nuclei and the physical principles of particle acceleration. He directed the
conversion of the proton synchrotron of the Dubna center into the first accelerator
of relativistic nuclei. State Prize, 1973.) (GSE 30, p. 21.)
Barkov, Lev M. Born in 1928 in Moscow. Russian High Energy physicist.
Corresponding member since 1972, and academician since 1984. He graduated
from Moscow State University in 1952 and joined the Institute of Atomic Energy
staff. In 1967, he joined both the staff of the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the
Siberian Department in 1967 and the teaching staff of the University of
Novosibirsk, receiving his professorship there in 1973. Since 1969, he has been
Head of "Barkov's Department" of the Budker Nuclear Physics Institute in
Novosibirsk that was created in 1957 and that concentrates on controlled thermonuclear
reactions and accelerator technology. His principal membership is in the
Nuclear Physics Department of the RAS. In 1980, he established the chair of
nuclear physics at Novosibirsk University that he occupies. His works are in
neutron moderation and multiplication in uranium-water systems. He has
investigated the production of pions and their interaction with matter. He has
worked on developing devices with strong pulsed magnetic fields for the study of
elementary particles. His works deal with neutron moderation and multiplication in
uranium-water systems. He has investigated pion production and the interaction of
pions with matter. (GSE 30, p. 22.)
Beliaev, (Belyaev) Spartak T., D. PM. S. Born in 1923 in Moscow. Russian
physicist. Corresponding member since 1964, and academician of the Nuclear
Physics Department of the AN SSSR and the RAS and of the Siberian Department
since 1968. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1952. From 1952 to
1962, he worked at the I. V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy. After 1962, he
worked at the Institute of Nuclear physics of the Siberian Department of the AN
SSSR and the Russian Academy of Sciences, and since 1965, he has served as
rector of Novosibirsk University. Since 1969, he has been Head of Theory
Laboratory of the Budker Nuclear Physics Institute in Novosibirsk. From 1967 to
1978, he was a member of the Presidium of the Siberian Department. Since 1983,
he has served as Head of the General and Nuclear Physics Division of the I. V.
Kurchatov Atomic Energy Institute in Moscow. He has worked on relativistic
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