Ivan Romanowitsch Hecker

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Ivan Romanowitsch Hecker (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 1979)

Iwan Romanovich Hecker (Johann von Hecker, Russian Иван Романович Геккер , English transcription Ivan Romanovich Gekker; born March 4, 1927 in Leningrad ; †  May 7, 1989 in Moscow ) was a Russian plasma physicist.

He was the son of the paleontologist Roman Fyodorowitsch Hecker . Hecker graduated from the Moscow Institute for Energy Technology with a degree in physics engineering in 1950 and worked at the Institute for Automation and Telemechanics. In 1959 he made an engineering degree there. He was then a member of the Institute for General Physics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, where he became a senior scientist in 1971. He also held lectures at the Moscow Institute of Technology.

Hecker dealt primarily with microwave heating of plasmas and controlled nuclear fusion, which he also presented at international conferences such as 1975 in Lausanne. He submitted his Russian doctoral thesis (equivalent to a habilitation) on anomalous absorption of electromagnetic waves in plasmas in 1988 , but died before defending his dissertation.

He was married to the theater and film actress Svetlana Wladimirowa (* 1927) and had a daughter (Nathalie von Gekker, Nathalia Hecker, * 1954), a children's book author.

In addition to Russian and German, he also spoke English, French and Italian.

Hecker was a distant descendant of Leonhard Euler (via his son Johann Albrecht Euler).

Fonts

  • Interaction of strong electromagnetic fields with plasmas , Oxford University Press 1982 (first in Russian Atomisdat , Moscow 1978)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gekker, NL Tsintsadze Interaction of intense electromagnetic radiation with plasma , in Proc. Seventh European Conf. Controlled Fusion and Plasma Phys. (Lausanne), 1975
  2. ↑ Article by Gekker (Hecker) and AA Euler on Euler's descendants in Bogoljubow, Michailow, Juschkewitsch Euler and modern science , 2007
personal data
SURNAME Hecker, Iwan Romanowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Геккер, Иван Романович (Russian); Gekker, Ivan Romanovich; Hecker, Johann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1989
Place of death Moscow