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electromagnetic and optical wave bands in the atmosphere. He has been a
corresponding member, 1970, and an academician since 1989--of the Oceanology,
Atmospheric Physics, and Geography Department. He was originally elected to the
General Physics and Astronomy Department. He joined the Presidium of the
Siberian Department in 1971. Since 1979, he has been Chairman of the Presidium of
the Tomsk Scientific Center, and he is Chairman of the Council for Research
Coordination of the Tomsk Oblast Committee. He has authored 69 scientific works
of which nine are monographs of importance; co-authored 238 works of which ten
are significant monographs and eight are discoveries. He graduated from the
University of Tomsk in 1951 and immediately began teaching there. From 1955 to
1969, he worked in the Siberian Physico-Technical Institute, becoming a professor
in 1964. Since 1969, he has been Director of the Atmospheric Optics Institute in
Tomsk and a member of the Siberian Department Presidium. The Atmospheric
Optics Institute was established in 1969 to study spectroscopy, the laser probing of
the atmosphere, lasers, and other electro-optical devices. His main work is in atmospheric
optics and physics. He has guided the academic work of 23 doctoral
candidates and 67 aspirants for the candidate degree. He was a Deputy to the 8th
Convocation of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR He received a State Prize for his
scientific work in 1985. He is the recipient of a number of other awards and medals.
(GSE 9, p. 696.)
Corresponding Members
Alekin, Oleg A. Born in 1908. Russian hydrochemist. Corresponding member since
1953. Originally elected to the Chemical Sciences Department. Since 1976, he has
been the Director of the Limnology Institute in St. Petersburg that is subordinate to
the academy's Oceanology, Atmospheric Physics and Geography Department. He is
author of works on natural waters and methods of their chemical analysis, and
andrology. He is rector of the Leningrad Hydrometeorology Institute. Recipient of
the State Prize, 1951. (GSE 1, p. 221.)
Babaev, Agadzhangel G., D. Geog. S. Born in 1929 in Mary. Soviet physical
geographer. Corresponding member of the Oceanology, Atmospheric Physics, and
Geography Department of the Academy since 1976. He was an academician and
from 1975 to 1986, President of the Turkestan Academy of Sciences. He graduated
from the geography department of the Ashkhabad Pedagogical Institute in 1949.
From 1950 to 1960, he was associated with the A. M. Gorkiy Turkmen University.
He served as Director of the Deserts Institute at Ashkhabad from 1960 to 1975. In
1959, he was named Chairman of the Geographical Society of the Turkmen SSR.
His works are in the study of nature and on the development of deserts. He was a
Deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 1979. (GSE 30, p. 20.)
Budyko, Mikhail I., D. PM. S. Born in 1920 in Gomel. Russian geophysicist.
Corresponding member of the Oceanology, Atmospheric Physics, and Geography
Department of the Academy since 1964; academician since 1993. Originally elected
to Earth Sciences Department. He graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnic
Institute in 1942 and began working at the A. I. Voeikov Main Geophysical
Observatory in St. Petersburg, becoming its Director in 1954 and serving in that
position until 1973. The Observatory is subordinate to the State Committee for
Hydrometeorology, and was established in 1849 to study the atmospheric processes
and phenomena affecting weather. His works are in physical climatology, bioclimatology,
and actinometry. With A. A. Grigorev, he formulated the periodic law of
geographical zonality. He received the Lenin Prize in 1958 for work on the heat
balance of the earth's surface. In 1981, he was awarded the A. P. Vinograd Prize
for geochemistry and analytical chemistry. (GSE 4, p. 155.)
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