Lev Andreevich Arzimowitsch

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LA Arzimovich on a Soviet postage stamp, 1974

Lev Artsimovich ( Russian Лев Андреевич Арцимович ., Scientific transliteration Lev Andreevič Arcimovič ; born February 12 . Jul / 25. February  1909 greg. In Moscow ; † 1. March 1973 in Moscow) was a Soviet physicist .

Arzimowitsch studied in Minsk and from 1930 was at the Joffe Institute in Leningrad. During the Second World War he worked on infrared night vision devices and electronics, and from 1944 he was part of the Soviet nuclear weapons program at the later Kurchatov Institute .

Arzimowitsch worked in the field of nuclear fusion research and plasma physics . He is considered to be one of the "fathers of the tokamak ", a special form of the nuclear fusion reactor. In 1955 the first tokamak was built in Moscow. Until 1970, no one outside of the Soviet Union researched this technology.

Arzimowitsch was once asked when the first thermonuclear power plant will be built. "If humanity needs it or a little earlier," was the answer.

In 1946 he became a corresponding and in 1953 full member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and from 1957 he was a member of the Presidium there. In 1953 he received the Stalin Prize for his contributions to the nuclear energy program, in 1958 the Lenin Prize and in 1971 the State Prize of the USSR. In 1966 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1969 he was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor , the highest civil honor in the Soviet Union . Since 1969 he was a foreign member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and he was a member of the Czechoslovak, Yugoslav and Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Artsimovich crater on the moon was named after him.

literature

  • Борис Борисович Кадомцев (Ed.): Воспоминания об академике Л. А. Арцимовиче Выходные данные. Наука, Москва, 1981 (English: Boris Borissowitsch Kadomtzew (Hrsg.): Reminiscences about academician Lev Artsimovich. Nauka Publishers, Moscow 1985).
  • with Р. З. Сагдеев: Физика плазмы для физиков. Атомиздать, Москва 1979 (German: with Roald S. Sagdejew : Plasmaphysik für Physiker. Teubner Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-519-03051-9 ).
  • Управляемые термоядерные реакции. Государственное издательство физико-математисеской литературы, Москва 1961 (German: Gesteuerte thermonukleare 1961) . Akademie-Verlag 1965; English: Controlled. Edinburgh 1961 thermon anducon .
  • Элементарная физика плазмы. Атомиздать, Москва 1966 (German: Elementare Plasmaphysik. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1972).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the previous academies. Lev Andreevich Arzimowitsch. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 17, 2015 .

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personal data
SURNAME Arzimowitsch, Lev Andrejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Artsimovich, LA; Arcimovič, Lev Andreevič (scientific transliteration); Арцимович, Лев Андреевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet physicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1973
Place of death Moscow