Gennady Andreevich Mesjaz

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Gennady Andreevich Mesjaz (left, presentation of the Komsomol Prize by Yevgeny Tjaschelnikow , Moscow 1971)

Gennadi Andrejewitsch Mesjaz ( Russian Геннадий Андреевич Месяц ; born February 29, 1936 in Kemerovo ) is a Russian physicist .

Life

Mesjaz comes from a working class family. His grandfather Roman Dmitrijewitsch Mesjaz was a farm worker and miner in the Donbas , before he went to Siberia with his family with 10 children in 1908 and settled in Ujesd Bolotnoye . His father Andrei Romanowitsch Mesjaz (1907–1985) settled in Anhero-Sudschensk after marrying Anna Michailowna Michailowa (1910–1990) and worked in the local tannery as a cook and canteen manager. From 1931 he headed a study camp of the Society for the Promotion of Defense, Aviation and Chemistry . In 1938 he was arrested and sent to the Gulag . After being held in camp in the Far East and in the Komi ASSR , he was released in December 1945 (and rehabilitated in 1954 ). After her husband's arrest, his mother had to leave her house with her three small children and mother-in-law and went to Jaschkino and then to relatives in Topki , where the family suffered greatly from the limited material conditions, especially during the German-Soviet war . In 1943 Gennadi Mesjaz started school. In 1946 the family moved to Belovo , where the father worked as a cook again. In 1949 Gennadi Mesjaz was admitted to the Komsomol . From 1950 he attended the Railway Middle School No. 76 in Belove, where he helped his classmates with mathematics .

After graduating from school with a silver medal in 1953, Mesjaz began studying at the Radio Technical Faculty of the Tomsk Polytechnic Institute (TPI) . However, the sons of convicts were not allowed to study at this faculty, so that Mesjaz was transferred to the electrical energy faculty in 1955 . There he completed his studies in electrical engineering in 1958, specializing in electrical stations, networks and systems . His teachers included AA Vorobyov , AM Prokhorov , GI Budker and NG Bassow . After the subsequent postgraduate he was in 1961 with his work on the study and development of devices for the generation of nanoseconds -Hochspannungsfunksignalen the candidate of technical sciences PhD. He now became a research assistant at the TPI. In 1966 he received his doctorate in technical sciences .

In 1966, Mesjaz became head of the department for nanosecond high-voltage pulse technology at the Research Institute for Nuclear Physics , Electronics and Automation (NII JaFEA) at the TPI. Under his leadership, the first high-precision pulse electron accelerator was built. In 1968 he was a member of the organizing committee of the International Symposium on Discharges and Electrical Insulation in Vacuum (ISDEIV) . In 1969 he became vice director for scientific work in the new Institute of Atmospheric Optics (IOA) under construction at the Academgorodok of the Tomsk Scientific Center of the Siberian Department (SO) of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AN-SSSR) . In 1977 he initiated and organized the Institute for High Current Electronics of the SO of the AN-SSSR in Tomsk, which he headed until 1986. In 1979 he became a corresponding member of the AN-SSSR and in 1979 a real member.

Mesjaz worked in the Komsomol and in the CPSU . In 1971 he was a delegate at the 24th Congress of the CPSU. He took part in the World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow in 1957 , in Sofia in 1968 and in Berlin in 1973 .

In addition to his research activities, Mesjaz taught at the TPI from 1961, which eventually appointed him professor. In 1970 he became professor at the Tomsk University for control systems and radioelectronics , in 1978 professor at the chair for electrodynamics and quantum field theory at the University of Tomsk (TGU) and in 1984 head of the chair for plasma physics at the TGU, which he founded.

In 1986 he moved to the Ural Polytechnic Institute in Sverdlovsk and headed the Chair of Electrophysics. In 1987 the Electrophysics Institute of the Ural Department of the AN-SSSR was founded with his participation , which he now headed as well as the Ural Department of the AN-SSSR (as successor to SW Wonsowski 1986-1998).

Since 1988 Mesjaz has headed the Chair of Electrophysics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology . Among his students in his long teaching activity were SP Bugayev , BM Kovalchuk , SD Korowin and WG Shpak .

In 1990 Mesjaz became a foreign member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . In 1993 Mesjaz initiated the renewed foundation of the Demidow Prize and has been President of the International Demidow Foundation since then. From 1998–2005, Mesjaz was chairman of the Commission for the Award of Degrees of the Ministry of Education and Science. 2004-2015 he was director of the Moscow Lebedev Institute as successor to ON Krochins . He is a member of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America . He served on the Education Commission of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics for six years . In 2009 he became an external member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine .

Mesjaz is married to Nina Alexandrovna née Maschukowa (* 1937), who was a lecturer at the Tomsk University for control systems and radio electronics until her retirement . Her son Wadim Gennadijewitsch Mesjaz (* 1964) studied physics at the TGU, became known as a poet and writer and has lived in the USA since 1993 .

Honors, prizes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ruspekh.ru: Месяц Геннадий Андреевич (accessed on August 17, 2017).
  2. ↑ Российская академия наук Уральское отделение: Месяц Геннадий Андреевич (accessed August 17, 2017).
  3. ↑ a b Глобальная энергия: ГЕННАДИЙ МЕСЯЦ (РОССИЯ) (accessed August 17, 2017).
  4. ^ The Walter P. Dyke Award (accessed August 17, 2017)
  5. ^ IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award (accessed August 17, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Mesjaz, Gennady Andreevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Месяц, Геннадий Андреевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Soviet physicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Kemerovo