Alexander Michailowitsch Obuchow
Alexander Michailowitsch Obukhov , Russian Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Обу́хов , English transcription Alexander Obukhov, (born May 5, 1918 in Saratov ; † December 3, 1989 in Moscow ) was a Russian physicist and applied mathematician who dealt with the application of the theory of turbulence and the theory of turbulence Dealt with meteorology .
His father was a professor of agriculture in Saratov. Obuchow graduated from high school at the age of 16 and worked at the Meteorological Institute in Saratov to bridge the time to study, which led to its first publication in 1939. He then studied in Saratov and Moscow ( Lomonossow University ) and received his habilitation in 1945 under Andrei Kolmogorow at the Institute of Geophysics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (Russian doctorate). There he became head of department and from 1956 to 1989 he headed the Institute for Atmospheric Physics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, which he then newly founded.
He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and an honorary member of the Royal Meteorological Society .
Like Kolmogorow, he researched the statistical theory of turbulence in the 1940s and, together with Andrei Monin, developed a statistical theory of turbulence in atmospheric boundary layers ( Monin-Obuchow theory ).
The Institute for Atmospheric Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences is named after him today.
literature
- AM Yaglom: Alexander Mikhailovich Obukhov, 1918-1989, Boundary Layer Meteorology, Volume 53, 1990, pp. V-XI
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| SURNAME | Obuchow, Alexander Michailowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Обу́хов, Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович; Obukhov, Alexander (English transcription) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian mathematician and physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saratov |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd December 1989 |
| Place of death | Moscow |