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Director of the Siberian Department’s Institute of Plant Physiology and
Biochemistry.
Shabanov, Vasilii F., D. PM. S. Born in 1940. Physicist. Specialist in the fields of
optico-electronics and molecular spectroscopy. Corresponding member General
Physics and Astronomy Department of the Academy and of the Siberian Department
since 1990. In 1988, he was named a member of the Presidium of the Krasnoiarsk
Scientific Center of the Siberian Department of the RAS. He is Head of a laboratory
of the Kirenskii Physics Institute in Krasnoiarsk. He has co-authored 165 scientific
works of which three are monographs. His work has contributed greatly to an
expansion of knowledge of the physical characteristics of molecular
microelectronics. He is a professor at the Irkutsk State University where he has
overseen the work of ten aspirants for the candidate degree. He is a consulting
specialist to the Technical Construction Bureau “Nauka” of the Siberian Department,
heads the Council on automation of scientific research in the Krasnoiarsk Scientific
Center, and is on the Scientific Council of the RAS on problems of the Spectroscopy
of Atoms and Molecules.
Shalagin, Anatolii F., D. PM. S. Born in 1943. Experimental Physicist. Specialist in
nonlinear spectroscopy. Corresponding member of the General Physics and
Mathematics Department of the Academy and of the Siberian Department since 1990.
He has written eight major scientific works and co-authored another 108, of which
two are monographs. He is Head of a laboratory of the Automatic and Electrometry
Institute of the Siberian Department in Novosibirsk. He has assisted in the
development of the kinetic theory of nonlinear resonance, and in his research has
experimentally found a method for polarizing nonlinear resonance with spectroscopy
. He has discovered and researched a new class of incandescent phenomena in a
laser radiation field. He is a professor at the Novosibirsk State University where he
has overseen the doctoral research of two persons and the research of four aspirants
for the candidate degree. He was on the Scientific Council on Spectroscopy, and a
consultant to the Institute of Automation and Electrometry of the Siberian
Department. He is an editor of the journal, “Autometry.”
Sidorov, Veniamin A., D. PM. S. Born in 1930 in Vladimir Oblast. Russian physicist.
Corresponding member of the Nuclear Physics Department of the Academy and of
the Siberian Department since 1968. He graduated from Moscow State University
in 1953 and joined the staff of the Institute of Atomic Energy. In 1962, he affiliated
with the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian Department of the AN SSSR.
Since 1970, he has been Head of the Particle Physics Laboratory and of "Sidorov's
Department" and since 1977, he has been Deputy Director of the Budker Nuclear
Physics Institute in Novosibirsk established in 1957. He helped to develop the
colliding beam technique. He has investigated quantum electrodynamics, fastneutron
spectrometry, vector mesons, multihadron annihilation, and colliding beams
of electrons and positrons. He is an Honored Scientist of the former Soviet Union,
and member of an editorial board of a scientific journal. Lenin Prize, 1967. (GSE
23, p. 437.)
Soktoyev, Aleksandr B., D. Philological S. Born in 1931. Specialist in literature and
folklore. Corresponding member of the Philosophy and Law Department of the
Academy and of the Siberian Department since 1990. Head of a sector of the
History, Philology and Philosophy Institute of the Siberian Department in
Novosibirsk-Akademgorodok. He has authored 119 scientific works, of which two
monographs have particular significance, and he is the co-author of 10 publications
of which two are monographs, of which “The History of Buriat Soviet Literature” is
one (1967). He teaches at the Buriat State Pedagogical Institute imeni Dorzhi
Banzarova where he has guided the work of three aspirants for the candidate degree.
He was on the Scientific Council on folklore of the AN SSSR and a member of the
coordination council for the comparative study of the Soviet and American cultures.
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