Mikhail Dmitrievich Millionschtschikow

Mikhail Dmitrijewitsch Millionschtschikow on a Soviet Union postage stamp.

Mikhail Dmitrijewitsch Millionschtschikow , Russian Михаил Дмитриевич Миллионщиков , English transcription Mikhail Dmitrievich Millionshchikov, (born January 3, 1913 in Grozny ; † May 27, 1973 in Moscow ) was a Russian applied physicist and engineer.

Millionschtschikow graduated from the Petroleum Institute in Grozny in 1932 and taught at the Moscow Aviation Institute from 1934 to 1943 and then at the Moscow Institute of Physical Technology, where he became a professor in 1949. From 1944 to 1949 he was at the Institute for Mechanics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and later at the Institute for Atomic Energy, whose deputy director he became in 1960.

He dealt with the theory of turbulence (in which he did his doctorate with Andrei Kolmogorov ), filter processes and applied gas dynamics with technical applications. He also dealt with nuclear technology and oil production.

From 1953 he was a corresponding and from 1962 full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and from 1962 its vice-president. From 1966 he was responsible for their publications. Millionschtschikow was a member of the Communist Party from 1947. In 1967 he became co-editor of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia.

He was a Hero of Socialist Labor (1967), received the State Prize of the USSR in 1951 and 1954 , received the Lenin Prize in 1961, and he received five Orders of Lenin and the Order of the October Revolution . He was a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1953), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1968) and the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (1971).

In 1964 he became chairman of the Soviet Pugwash Committee.

The Grozny Oil Institute is named after him.

His son Vladimir Mikhailovich Millionschtschikow is a mathematician.

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• Great Soviet Encyclopedia