Dawid Abramowitsch Kirschniz

Dawid Abramowitsch Kirschniz ( Russian Давид Абрамович Киржниц , also transcribed David Kirschniz , born October 13, 1926 in Moscow ; † May 4, 1998 ibid) was a Russian theoretical physicist who was particularly concerned with nuclear physics and astrophysics .

His father Abraham Dawidowitsch Kirschniz was a journalist and one of the main actors in the OZET movement (Settlement of Jews in the Country). He was arrested in 1938 during the Great Terror and died shortly after his release in 1940. Kirschniz was evacuated from Moscow in 1941 as a result of the German attack with other children, graduated from high school in 1943 and began studying at the Moscow Aviation Institute . In 1945 he moved on the recommendation of Lev Landau at the Moscow State University where he studied with Alexander Solomonovich Kompanejez . After graduating in 1949, he worked as an engineer in Gorki and from 1954 in the department of Igor Tamm at the Lebedev Institute , where he received his doctorate in 1957 and habilitated in 1966 (Russian doctorate).

Andrei Linde , with whom he received the Lomonossow Prize of the Academy of Sciences in 1978, is one of his students . With his student Galina Wassiljewna Schpatkowskaja he received the Tamm Prize of the Academy of Sciences in 1998 (posthumously) (for further development of the Thomas Fermi theory with application to matter under extreme conditions).

From 1987 he was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

• Труды по теоретической физике и воспоминания , 2 volumes. Fizlit, Moscow, 2001, ISBN 5-9221-0178-1 and ISBN 5-9221-0216-8 (Russian, "Collected Writings").
• Лекции по физике. Nauka, Moscow, 2006, ISBN 5-02-035358-2 (Russian, “Lectures on Physics”).

Web links

• Д.А. Киржниц. In: Успехи физических наук УФН. (Russian, English, website dedicated to Kirschniz). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Премия имени И.Е. Тамма. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed November 5, 2018 (Russian).