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member of the Ukrainian Academy, and another of the Azerbaiian Academy. One
member serves as Vice President of the State Committee on Space Research. Three
are members of the Siberian Department.
Membership Listing of the General Physics and Astronomy Department: A
brief biographical sketch of each academician and corresponding member of the
subject-matter departments of the RAS was given, followed thereafter by a
presentation of the scientific research institutes subordinate to that department.
Sources of this information have been entries digested from the Great Soviet
Encyclopedia (MacMillan), and from the Directory of Soviet Officials: Science and
Education for the years of 1980,1985, 1987, and 1989. The biographical
information has been compiled from a number of different publications. Even when
biographical material has been used from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, those items
have often been modified by using later information from other sources. All of this
biographical material--and the information on the Scientific Research Institutes--has
been reviewed, amended, and brought up to date by staff members of the Presidium
of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow--a process which continues.
1997 update:
Bureau of the Department
Academician-secretary
Academician Leonid V. Keldysh, (Keldish) tel. 938-16-95
Keldysh, (Keldish) Leonid V., D. PM. S. Born in April 1931 in Moscow. Russian
physicist. He has been a corresponding member of the General Physics and
Astronomy Department of the Academy since 1968, and an academician since
1976. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1954, and went to work at
the Institute of Physics. He became a professor at Moscow State University in
1969. His principal works have dealt with quantum many-particle theory and with
solid-state physics. He is author of a number of monographs on the theory of
semiconductor characteristics in strong electric fields. Since 1976, he has been
Chief of "Keldysh's subdepartment" and of the Theory of Superconducting
Department of the Nuclear Physics Division of the P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute
in Moscow. From 1972 until 1988, Keldysh was Director of the P. N. Lebedev
Physics Institute Branch in Troitsk and in 1988 he became Director of the Moscow
Institute itself. From 1976, he also served as a Deputy Director of the Spectroscopy
Institute in Troitsk that is subordinate to the academy's General Physics and
Astronomy Department. He is now Academician Secretary of the Russian
Academy's Department of General Physics and Astronomy in Moscowl. (GSE, 12,
p. 395; 31, pp. 315-316.)
Deputies of the Academician-Secretary:
Academician Andrei S. Borovik-Romanov, tel. 137-68-20
Borovik-Romanov, Viktor Andrei S., D. PM. S. Born in March 1920 in Petrograd.
Russian Physicist. He has been a corresponding member of the General Physics
and Astronomy Department of the Academy since 1966, and an academician since
1972. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1947. He worked at the
Moscow State Institute of Measures and Measuring Instruments from 1948 to
1955. From 1956 he worked at the Institute of Physical Problems. Since 1963, he
has served as Deputy Director of the S. I. Vavilov Physical Problems Institute in
Moscow. He was named Chief of the Low Temperature Magnetic Properties
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