Alexander Sakharovich Patashinsky

Alexander Sakharovich Pataschinski ( Russian Александр Захарович Паташинский ; English transcription Alexander Patashinski, Patashinskii or Patashinsky; * 1936 in Vitebsk ) is a Russian physicist.

Pataschinski studied at the Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology , at the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics in Moscow and at the Institute for Physics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences ( Kapiza Institute ), where he studied with Lev Landau , where he worked on singularities in 1963 in Feynman diagrams, in which he completed the private exams for its theoretical minimum and who accepted him as a doctoral student in 1959. Before that he was in the group of Isaak Markowitsch Chalatnikow . From 1961 he was at the Institute for Thermophysics in Novosibirsk, but was able to continue working at Landau in Moscow. His collaboration with Valery Pokrovsky began in Novosibirsk , initially via regge poles in a semiclassical spread of potentials in quantum mechanics. In 1968 he received his habilitation (Russian doctorate). From 1968 to 1998 he was a senior scientist at the Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk and at the same time professor at the State University in Novosibirsk from 1974 to 1992. Since 1992 he has been a professor at Northwestern University .

In 1983 he and Valeri Pokrowski received the Landau Prize for their contributions to the theory of phase transitions in statistical physics (scaling of the correlation functions at the critical point), which they developed together from 1963. He also dealt with other areas of theoretical physics such as gravitational collapse in general relativity and high-energy scattering of hadrons on nuclei, turbulence, non-equilibrium phenomena in statistical mechanics, physics of glasses and polymers (which he researched with support from Dow Chemical in the USA) .

Since 2003 he has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society .

Fonts

• Patashinskii, Pokrovskii, "Fluctuation Theory of Phase Transitions," Elsevier 1979

Web links

• Biography with a link to an interview in 2002