Alexei Maximowitsch Fridman

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Alexei Fridman

Alexei Maximowitsch Fridman ( Russian Алексей Максимович Фридман ; born February 17, 1940 in Moscow , then USSR ; †  October 29,  2010 in Jerusalem , Israel ) was a Russian physicist .

Life

Fridman on receiving the State Prize of the Russian Federation together with Dmitri Medvedev

Alexei Fridman was born in Moscow on February 17, 1940, the son of Maxim Jefimowitsch Fridman (surgeon) and Felizija Jakowlewna Scheinbaum (lawyer). In the 1950s the family moved to Frunze (today's Bishkek ) in the Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic . In 1963, Fridman graduated from Novosibirsk State University . Fridman received his doctorate in 1966 as a candidate for science ( kandidat nauk ) and since that year has been working as a junior scientist at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk . From 1971 to 1979 he was laboratory manager at IZMIRAN in Irkutsk and completed his habilitation in 1976 as a doctor of science ( doctor nauk ). Subsequently, Fridman was a senior scientist at the Institute for Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, where he was head of the Institute for the Physics of Star and Planetary Systems since 1986. In Moscow he worked as a professor at Lomonosov University . Since 1991 Fridman was on the Organizing Committee of the IAU . In 1994, Fridman became a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and was elected an academician in 2000.

Fridman received many national and international awards during his time as a researcher. In 1989 he was awarded the State Prize of the USSR . In addition, he received the State Prize of the Russian Federation twice (2003 and 2008) . After a long illness, he died in Jerusalem on October 29, 2010.

Publications

Books

  • Fridman, AM, Poljačenko, VL: Ravnovesie i ustojčivost 'gravitirujuščich sistem (Moscow, Nauka , 1976)
  • Polyachenko, WL, Fridman, AM: Physics of Gravitating Systems (New-York: Springer-Verlag, 1984)
  • Fridman, AM, Poljačenko, VL: Fizika planetnych kolec (Moscow, Nauka , 1994)
  • Fridman, AM, Polyachenko, WL: Physics of planetary rings: celestial mechanics of continuous media (New-York: Springer-Verlag, 1999)
  • Fridman, AM, Polyachenko, WL: Neustojčivosti gravitirujuščich sistem (Moscow, Akademija 1998)

items

Fridman published a total of more than 250 scientific papers in the fields of plasma physics, quantum physics, theoretical physics, cosmology, relativistic astrophysics and many other areas.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Report of death and curriculum vitae on the website of the Institute for Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences ( memento of March 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved on May 15, 2011
  2. ↑ Андрей Георгиевич Кузнецов: Одноклассники, Литературный Кыргызстан, 2006 год / номер 2 Retrieved May 15, 2011

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personal data
SURNAME Fridman, Alexei Maximowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Фридман, Алексей Максимович (Russian spelling); Friedmann, Alexei Maximowitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 2010
Place of death Jerusalem