Leonid Vladimirovich Kravchuk

This article describes the Russian physicist Leonid Vladimirovich Kravchuk. For the Ukrainian politician of the same name and former President of Ukraine, see Leonid Kravchuk .

Leonid Wladimirowitsch Kravchuk ( Russian Леонид Владимирович Кравчук ; born September 24, 1950 ) is a Russian physicist and university professor .

Life

Kravchuk graduated from the South Urals Polytechnic in Chelyabinsk in 1969 and then worked for two years as a locksmith in the Chelyabinsk Chemicals Combine Mayak . He then studied at the Moscow Institute of Physical Engineering (MIFI) with a degree in 1976.

Since 1976 Kravchuk has been working in the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AN-SSSR, since 1991 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN)) in Troitsk . With his investigation of the radio-technical parameters and methodology for the construction of the resonators for accelerators of the Moscow meson factory , he received his doctorate in 1985 as a candidate in technical sciences . He then became head of the accelerator laboratory at the Moscow meson factory.

In 1992 Kravchuk became vice director of the RAN Institute for Nuclear Research. With his investigation and the construction of a linear accelerator system for the acceleration of hydrogen ions , he received his doctorate in technical sciences in 1994 . In 2015 he became director of the RAN Institute for Nuclear Research, succeeding Viktor Anatolyevich Matveev . The most important Russian proton accelerator and a neutron source went into operation . Medical radioisotopes are produced and there is a facility for radiation therapy for cancer . Kravchuk is a professor at the Chair of Fundamental Interactions and Cosmology at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology . In 2016 he became a corresponding member of RAN.

Honors, prizes

• Medal "Veteran of Labor"
• Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation for Science and Technology for 2000 (2001)
• Markow Prize (2008 together with Stanislaw Pawlowitsch Michejew , Alexei Jurjewitsch Smirnow , Sergei Konstantinowitsch Jessin and Alexander Wladimirowitsch Feschtschenko )
• Commemorative medal for the 100th birthday of Leonid Fyodorovich Vereschagin (2009)
• Order of Merit for the Fatherland 2nd Class (2012)
• Weksler Prize of the RAN (2015 together with Valentin Vitalievich Paramonov ) (2015)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} The St. Petersburg School: Кравчук Леонид Владимирович (accessed June 14, 2018).
2. ↑ Institute for Nuclear Research: Биография Л.В.Кравчука (accessed on June 14, 2018).
3. ↑ RAN: Кравчук Леонид Владимирович (accessed June 14, 2018).