Juras Karlowitsch Požela

This article describes the Russian-Lithuanian physicist. For the Lithuanian politician of the same name, see Juras Požela .

Juras Karlowitsch Požela ( Russian Ю́рас Ка́рлович Поже́ла ; * December 5, 1925 in Moscow ; † November 20, 2014 in Vilnius ) was a Russian - Lithuanian physicist .

Life

Požela graduated from Lomonossow University in Moscow in 1951 with a degree in physics . In 1953 he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union . 1956-1958 he worked as a research assistant at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology . In addition, he worked from 1956 in the Institute of Physics and Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (AN-LitSSR) . In 1963 he became director of this institute. In 1964 he received his doctorate in physical and mathematical sciences and in 1966 he was appointed professor.

1967 Požela Director was of the Institute of Semiconductors of the AN-LitSSR and co editor of the Russian journal Physics and Technology of Semiconductor . In 1968 he became a member of the AN-LitSSR and in 1972 Vice-President of the AN-LitSSR. In 1984 he left the Institute for Semiconductors and became President of the AN-LitSSR (until 1992). In the same year he became a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . In 1991 he became a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts . In 1992 he became President of the Lithuanian Department of the International Center for Science and Culture and Chief Scientist of the Semiconductor Institute.

Požela was an expert in semiconductor physics. One focus of his work was the plasma effects in semiconductors and the problem of "hot" electrons from an electric field .

Honors

• Order of the October Revolution (1971)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1975 and 1981)
• Lenin Prize (1978) for theoretical and experimental investigations into the generation and amplification of microwaves in avalanche ionization in semiconductors and the development of the new IMPATT diode
• Hero of Socialist Labor (1985)
• Order of Lenin (1985)
• State Prize of the USSR (1988) for basic research and organization of the serial production of semiconductor magnetic control devices
• Order of Friendship (2000)
• two state prizes from Lithuania in the field of science

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A tribute to Juras Požela (1925-2014) . In: Lithuanian Journal of Physics . tape 55 , no. 4 , 2015, p. i-iii .
2. ↑ JA Chramow: Požela Juras Karlowitsch . In: AI Achijeser (Hrsg.): Physiker: Biografisches Lexikon . Nauka, Moscow 1983, p. 218 (Russian).
3. ↑ Professor Juras Pozhela director of the Semiconductor Physics Institute vice president of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences (accessed July 26, 2016).
4. ↑ Российская академия наук: Академик Пожела Юрас Карлович (accessed July 26, 2016).
5. ↑ Juras Požela: Physics of high-speed transistors . Plenum Press, New York 1993.
6. ↑ Juras Požela: Plasma and Current Instabilities in Semiconductors . Pergamon Press, Oxford 1981.
7. ↑ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 04.03.2000 г. № 466 (accessed July 26, 2016).

Web links

• Literature by and about Juras Karlowitsch Požela in the catalog of the German National Library