Valerian Tatarskii
Valerian I. Tatarskii ( Russian Валерьян Ильич Татарский Valerjan Iljitsch Tatarski ; born October 13, 1929 in Kharkiv , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ; † April 19, 2020 in Boulder , Colorado , USA ) was a Soviet, later American physicist , known for Investigations into wave propagation in turbulent media.
Life
Tatarskii graduated from Lomonosov University in 1952 . He then went to the Institute for Atmospheric Physics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences , where he received his doctorate in 1957 and was a senior scientist from 1959. In 1964 he was at the State University of Gorky habilitation . In 1958 he became laboratory manager at his institute. In 1990/91 he was head of a department at the Lebedev Institute and went to the University of Colorado in the United States in 1991 , where he was until 2001.
He was a senior scientist at Radio-Physics LLC in Boulder , which dealt with applied optics and wave propagation in turbulent and disordered media, as well as with applications in atmospheric optics, radar, and astronomy.
He dealt with wave propagation in turbulent media, scattering of waves on rough surfaces, acoustics, theory of wave propagation in geophysics (e.g. scattering of ocean surfaces with applications to environmental protection), statistical optics and the theory of coherence as well as statistical mechanics in general.
In 1994 he received the Max Born Award . In 1990 he and others received the Soviet State Prize .
He was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences , the National Academy of Engineering , Fellow of the Institute of Physics and the Optical Society of America . He was a member of the Electromagnetics Academy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .
Tatarskii was initially a Soviet and later a US citizen. He was married to Maja Granovskaya from 1955 and had a son.
Fonts
- Wave propagation in turbulent media. McGraw Hill 1961, Reprint Dover 1967 (Russian original 1959)
- The Effects of the Turbulent Atmosphere on Wave Propagation. Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Published for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, US Department of Commerce and the National Science Foundation, Washington, DC, 1971 (Russian original Moscow, Nauka 1967)
- with SM Rytov, Yu. A. Kravtsov Principles of Statistical Radiophysics , 4 volumes. Springer Verlag 1987 to 1989 (Russian original 1978)
See also
Web links
- Valerian Tatarskii. In: Elite American Educators. January 10, 2014(English, biography).
- Tatarskii, Valerian Il'ich. In: math-net.ru. Steklov Institute for Mathematics (English, Russian).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Since he is a US citizen, the English transcription is chosen.
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004.
- ↑ 19 апреля 2020 года в г. Боулдер, Колорадо, США, на 91 году жизни скончался Валериан Ильич Татарский, выдающийся физик, член-корреспондент РАН, в прошлом сотрудник Института физики атмосферы РАН. (pdf; 112 kB) In: ifaran.ru. Institute for Atmospheric Physics "AM Obuchow", April 20, 2020, accessed on April 20, 2020 (Russian, obituary).
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tatarskii, Valerian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tatarskii, Valerian I .; Tatarsky, Valerjan Ilyich; Татарский, Валерьян Ильич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet and American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kharkiv , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 19, 2020 |
| Place of death | Boulder , Colorado , USA |