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Brekhovskikh, Leonid M., D. PM. S. Born in 1917 in the village of Strunkino,
Arkhangelsk Province. Russian physicist. Corresponding member since 1953;
academician of the Oceanology, Atmospheric Physics, and Geography Department
since 1968. Originally elected to the Earth Sciences Department. Academician
Secretary of the Oceanology Department since 1969. He graduated from the
University of Perm' in 1939. He has been a professor at Moscow State University
since 1953. From 1954 to 1964, he was Director of the Acoustics Institute that was
founded in 1953 and that researched bioacoustics, hydro-acoustics, quantum
acoustics, and ultrasonics--it also had two research ships attached to it. He headed a
department at the university from 1964. His early work was on the scattering of Xrays
in crystals and liquids. In 1942 he began working in acoustics and wave propagation.
He studied propagation of sound and electromagnetic waves in heterogeneous
media. He developed a theory of wave fields from point sources in
stratified media and, in particular, produced a complete theory for so-called lateral
waves that play an important role in seismological surveys. He discovered the extra
long-range propagation of sound in the sea (jointly with L. D. Rozenberg) in 1946.
He received the State Prize in 1951. (GSE 4, p. 62.)
Buslaev, Iurii A., D. Chem. S. Born in 1929 in Syzran. Russian inorganic chemist.
Corresponding member, 1968, and academician, 1981. Academician Secretary to
the department since October 1988. He graduated from the Moscow D. I. Mendeleev
Chemical Engineering Institute in 1952. He has worked in the N. S. Kurnakov
Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the AN SSSR since 1952. Since
1967, he has been Deputy Director of the Kurnakov Institute in Moscow, that was
established in 1934 to study metal alloys , rare earth elements, and the chemistry of
complex compounds and polymers. Since 1969, he has served as Head of the
Inorganic Polymers Laboratory of that Institute. His works are in the chemistry of
transitional metals, the syntheses of their complex compounds, multiple bonds in
inorganic chemistry, polymerization of inorganic compounds, and obtaining new
classes of refractory substances. In 1986, he was awarded the L. A. Chugaev
chemistry Prize for his work. (GSE 4, p. 211.)
Emel'ianov, (Emelianov) Stanislav V., D. Tech. S. Born in May 1929 in Voronezh.
Russian scientist in the field of automated control. Elected member of the Presidium
of the Academy in 1988. He has been a corresponding member of the Academy
since 1970, and an academician of the Information Science, Computer Technology,
and Automation Department of the Academy since 1984. He graduated from the
Moscow Aviation Institute in 1952. He created a new line of development in the
theory of automated control, the theory of systems with variable structure. Such
systems are used to control non-stationary units, as in buildings, movement control
systems of aircraft, and in the automated landing systems of the supersonic
passenger aircraft Tu 144. Systems with variable structure are also used in the
metallurgical, chemical and food industries. He received the Lenin Prize in 1972.
Since 1976, he has been a Deputy Director of the Systems Research Scientific
Research Institute in Moscow. Since 1977, he has been Director of the International
Scientific Research Institute of Control Problems in Moscow that was established in
1977. (GSE 9, p.121.)
Faddeev, Ludwig D., D. PM. S. Born in March 1934 in Leningrad, son of D. K.
Faddeev. Russian mathematician and theoretical physicist. Elected a member of the
Presidium of the Academy in 1988. Academician of the Mathematics Department
since 1976. He graduated from Leningrad State University in 1956. He became a
professor at Leningrad State University in 1969. From 1976 to 1987, he served as
Deputy Director of the V. A Steklov Mathematics Institute in St. Petersburg. In
November of 1987, he was deputy director of MIRAS (V. A. Steklov Mathematics
Institute) a St. Petersburg Institute which was a branch of the Steklov (since 1934)
and which became independent in 1995 when Faddeev was made its director. It
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