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laboratory of the Vavilov Institute in 1964. His scientific work has been in
experimental investigation of antiferromagnetism. He discovered the phenomenon
of piezomagnetism. Since 1984 he has been acting Director of the S. I. Vavilov
Physical Problems Institute in Moscow that was founded in 1934 to research in low
temperature physics, plasma physics, theoretical physics, and power electronics.
(GSE vol. 3, p.479; vol. 23, p. 729, and vol. 31, p. 316.)
Academician Aleksandr Al. Boyarchuk (Boiarchuk), tel. 231-09-24
Boiarchuk, Aleksandr A., D. PM. S. Born in 1931. Astronomer. Corresponding
member of the General Physics and Astronly Department of the Academy since
1976; academician since December 1987. Since 1979, he has been Deputy Director
of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, that was organized in 1948 to conduct
solar, stellar, and planetary research and to investigate gas and dust nebulae.
Academician Boris K. Vainshtein, tel. 135-65-41
Vainshtein, Boris K., D. PM. S. Born in July 1921 in Moscow. Russian
crystallographer. He has been a corresponding member of the academy since 1962,
and an academician since 1976 of the General Physics and Astronomy Department.
He was originally elected to the Physical Mathematical Sciences Department. He
graduated from Moscow State University in 1945, and from the Institute of Steel in
1947. He began work at the A. V. Shubnikov Crystallography Institute in 1949.
He headed a laboratory there from 1958, and became the institute's Director in
1962. His principal works are in the field of structural analysis of crystals, the
theory of the diffraction of electrons and roentgen rays, and research on the
structure of albumen molecules. Vainshtein, Z. G. Pinkser and others developed a
method of structural electronography and worked out its theoretical foundations. He
was the first to define the position of hydrogen atoms in a series of crystals and to
analyze the structures of many complex and organic compounds. The A. V.
Shubnikov Crystallography Institute in Moscow was established in 1944 to investigate
the structure and physical properties of crystals. (GSE 4, p. 470.)
Academician Vladimir V. Migulin, tel.952-19-21, 334-09-10
Migulin, Vladimir V., D. PM. S. Born in July 1911 in Sereda--present-day Furmanov-
-in Ivanovo Oblast. Russian radio physicist. He has been a corresponding member
of the General Physics and Astronomy Department of the Academy since 1970, and
Deputy Academician Secretary of that Department since 1984; academician of the
Department in 1993. He graduated from Leningrad Polytechnic Institute in 1932.
He worked at the Institute of Physics of the academy from 1934 to 1941, and at the
Heat Engineering laboratory of the academy from 1946 to 1951. From 1951-54 he
was Director of the Physicotechnical Institute in Sukhumi. He has taught at the
Moscow State University since 1935--becoming a professor in 1948--and he served
as Deputy General Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1957-
59. Since 1972, he has been Vice President of the International Radio Union. From
1969 to 1988, he served as Director of the Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere, and
Radio Wave Propagation Institute at Troitsk that was established in 1939. It is a
leading facility in the U.S.S.R. for the study of magnetism and the ionosphere. It
also investigates spherics, radio astronomy, solar physics, and cosmic rays. He has
published seven major works dealing with the theory of oscillation, the propagation
of radio waves and other problems of radio physics. He was awarded State Prizes
in 1946 and 1953 and has received numerous other awards of recognition for his
scientific work. (GSE, 16, p. 287.)
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