Mikhail Lvovich Lidov
Mikhail Lwowitsch Lidow ( Russian Михаил́ Льво́вич Ли́дов; born October 4, 1926 in Cherkassy , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ; † December 30, 1993 in Moscow ) was a Soviet astronomer and applied mathematician specializing in celestial mechanics . He is known for his discovery, at the same time as Yoshihide Kozai , of the Lidow-Kozai effect .
Life
Lidow had a difficult childhood and adolescence. His father Leo I. Lidow (1898–1984) was arrested in 1934, spent 21 years in camps and exile and only returned home in 1955 after his rehabilitation. Mikhail Lidov did military service in the Red Army from 1944 to 1951. He had already started distance learning in 1949 and graduated from Lomonosov University in Moscow in 1954 . He initially worked under Sedov and from 1957 at the Institute for Applied Mathematics under Keldysch for Soviet space travel . In 1964 he received his doctorate without prior defense of the doctoral thesis. He taught theoretical mechanics and his lectures were published posthumously.
In 1953 he married and in 1959 his son Alexei, who became an art historian and Byzantist , was born. Mikhail Lidov died of a heart attack in December 1993 at the age of 67.
Awards and honors
- In 1960 he received the Lenin Prize for his contributions to the Soviet space program.
- In 1970 he received the Order of the Red Banner of Labor for participating in the Luna program
- In 1993 the asteroid (4236) Lidov was named after him.
swell
- Obituary in the SAO / NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
- Shevchenko, Ivan I. (2017). "The Lidov-Kozai Effect - Applications in Exoplanet Research and Dynamical Astronomy". Astrophysics and Space Science Library. Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-319-43522-0 ISBN 978-3-319-43520-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/lectures-theoretical-mechanics-teoreticheskoy-mekhanike/dp/5922108972
- ^ Entry Russian National Library , accessed on September 22, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lidow, Mikhail Lvovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Лидов, Михаил Львович (Russian); Lidov, Mikhail L'vovich (English) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet astronomer and mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 4, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cherkassy , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 30, 1993 |
| Place of death | Moscow |