Boris Mikhailovich Kovalchuk

Boris Michailowitsch Kowaltschuk ( Russian Борис Михайлович Ковальчук ; born April 10, 1940 in Magnitogorsk ; † February 7, 2017 in Tomsk ) was a Russian- Soviet physicist .

Life

Kovalchuk graduated from the Electrical Energy - Faculty of the Polytechnic Institute Tomsk (TPI) with completion in 1962. He then served as an electrical engineer , a laboratory of the Research Institute of Nuclear Physics of the TPI. Then he graduated from the postgraduate and became a candidate of technical sciences PhD. This was followed by a doctorate in technical sciences .

From 1970 Kovalchuk headed the laboratory for nanosecond technology in the Tomsk Institute for Atmospheric Optics (IOA) of the Siberian Department (SO) of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AN-SSSR) . With his participation the first Soviet high-current was electron accelerator , the first high gas laser , the first pulse generator with inductive energy storage and the first plasma - power switch built. Thanks to the developed high-performance generators, ways to inertial fusion opened up through the use of lasers or even starting from the Z-pinch .

In 1977 the laboratory was transferred to the Tomsk Institute for High Current Electronics (ISE) of the SO of the AN-SSSR. In 1981 it became the ISE's Impulse Technology Department , which Kovalchuk headed until his death. In 1987 he became a corresponding member of the AN - SSSR and in 1992 a real member of the now Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN) .

Kovalchuk was chairman of the organizing committee of the International Symposium on High Current Electronics 2000, 2004 and 2006 and cochairman of the 2nd International Congress on Radiation Physics, High Current Electronics, and Modification of Materials 2006 of the ISE in Tomsk. Since 2015 he has been co-editor of the Elsevier magazine Matter and Radiation at Extreme .

Honors, prizes

Komsomol Prize (1968)
State Prize of the USSR (1981)
Order of Friendship of Peoples (1986)
Order of Honor (1997)
Erwin Marx Award (1997) from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society
State Prize of the Russian Federation (1998)
Demidow Prize (2007)
Order of Merit for the Fatherland IV Class (2007)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Memorial for Dr. Boris M. Kovalchuk (accessed August 29, 2017).
↑ RAN: Ковальчук Борис Михайлович (accessed August 29, 2017).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ISE: Institute of High Current Electronics (IHCE) (accessed August 29, 2017).
↑ 13th International Symposium on High Current Electronics, 7th International Conference on Modification of Materials with Particle Beams and Plasma Flows (accessed August 29, 2017).
^ 2nd International Congress on Radiation Physics, High Current Electronics, and Modification of Materials (accessed August 29, 2017).
^ Matter and Radiation at Extremes Editorial Board (accessed August 29, 2017).

personal data
SURNAME	Kovalchuk, Boris Michailowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ковальчук, Борис Михайлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian-Soviet physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 10, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH	Magnitogorsk
DATE OF DEATH	February 7, 2017
Place of death	Tomsk

[els-1] Memorial for Dr. Boris M. Kovalchuk (accessed August 29, 2017).

[2] RAN: Ковальчук Борис Михайлович (accessed August 29, 2017).

[ise-3] ISE: Institute of High Current Electronics (IHCE) (accessed August 29, 2017).

[4] 13th International Symposium on High Current Electronics, 7th International Conference on Modification of Materials with Particle Beams and Plasma Flows (accessed August 29, 2017).

[5] 2nd International Congress on Radiation Physics, High Current Electronics, and Modification of Materials (accessed August 29, 2017).

[6] Matter and Radiation at Extremes Editorial Board (accessed August 29, 2017).