Mikhail Silytsch Kosodajew

Mikhail Silych Kosodajew ( Russian Михаил Силыч Козодаев ; born October 22 ^{. Jul} / 4. November  1909 ^greg. In St. Petersburg , † 6. June 1986 ) was a Russian nuclear physicist and university teacher .

Life

In 1928 Kosodajew began to work as an electrician in a shipyard . 1931–1932 he served in the Red Army .

In 1932 Kosodajew became a laboratory assistant in the Leningrad Physics and Technology Institute . He worked in Al Alichanov's group and observed the positron emission of radioactive atomic nuclei . In addition, he studied from 1933 at the physical - mathematical faculty of the University of Leningrad (graduation in 1938). In 1934 he discovered together with AI Alikhanian and Alichanow the positron electron - Annihilation . He suggested a telescope with a Geiger counter for studying cosmic rays .

During the Soviet-Finnish Winter War 1939-1940 Kosodajew was platoon leader in the artillery reconnaissance . During the German-Soviet War he worked in industry on developments in radio technology .

From 1943 Kosodajew worked in the Laboratory No. 2 for Measuring Instruments (LIPAN) of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AN-SSSR) (later the Kurchatov Institute ) in Moscow . He developed a system for registering the muon decay for the study of cosmic rays. 1948–1949 he headed the development of dosimeters . For his participation in the Soviet atomic bomb project , he received the Stalin Prize and the Order of Lenin in 1949 . He was a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences , and as a professor at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MIFI) , he established the chair for experimental methods in nuclear physics there in 1949 , which he headed until 1960.

In 1950, Kosodajew became deputy head of the hydrotechnical laboratory at the Institute for Core Problems of the AN-SSSR in Dubna (from 1956 part of the United Institute for Nuclear Research ). There he worked on problems related to the physics and technology of particle accelerators . In 1955 he took part in the first Geneva nuclear conference on the peaceful use of atomic energy . In 1957, at the suggestion of Alichanov, he became deputy director of the Moscow Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics of the AN-SSSR (until 1973).

Honors

• Medal "For heroic work in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
• Order of the Red Star (1945)
• Order of Lenin (1949)
• Stalin Prize (1949)
• Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union (1952)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1955)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} О.М. Козодаева: КОЗОДАЕВ Михаил Силыч (Kurchatov Institute, accessed April 13, 2017).
2. ↑ А. А. Тяпкин: ТРИ ВСТРЕЧИ С КУРЧАТОВЫМ (accessed April 13, 2017).
3. ↑ А. А. Тяпкин: О ПЕРВОМ СОВЕЩАНИИ ПО НОВОМУ ПРИНЦИПУ ЖЕСТКОЙ ФОКУСИРОВКИ ЧАСТИЦ (About the First Meeting on the New Principle of Particles Strong Focusing) (accessed April 13, 2017).