Vladimir Borisovich Braginsky

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Wladimir Borissowitsch Braginski ( Russian Владимир Борисович Брагинский ; born August 3, 1931 in Moscow ; † March 29, 2016 ibid) was a Russian physicist and university professor .

Life

Braginski studied at the physics faculty of Lomonossow University Moscow (MGU) with a degree in 1954. In 1955 he became a research assistant at the chair for vibration physics . He defended his candidate dissertation in 1959 and his doctoral dissertation in 1967 . In 1969 he was appointed professor. In the 1970s he headed the Department of Radiophysics and Electronics in the Faculty of Physics. 1987–2001 he headed the chair for molecular physics and physical measurements and 2001–2002 the chair for vibrational physics . In 1990 he was elected Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AN-SSSR, since 1991 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN)). In 1995 he became a member of the Academia Europaea . He gave guest lectures at the Niels Bohr Institute (1996) and at Uppsala University (1999). In 2004 he became an external honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2006 an external member of the National Academy of Sciences .

Braginski was an internationally highly respected experimental physicist and theorist . In 1967 he predicted and demonstrated ponderomotive friction and rigidity effects in the electromagnetic field of a resonator . His research focused on the limits of measurement accuracy caused by quantum mechanics and quantum nondemolition measurement . The resulting so-called quantum noise, which occurs as shot noise in special situations , was the subject of many of his investigations, which became of great importance for optics and nanotechnology .

Another research focus was the damping in mechanical systems, especially with regard to the investigation of gravitational waves . Together with his faculty colleagues, he developed essential elements for gravitational wave detectors , in particular a mass suspension with a relaxation time of more than 5 years. Braginski's research results were crucial for the successful work of the LIGO project. Braginski has been visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology since 1990 and worked with Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss . Braginski was the author or co-author of a large number of publications.

Braganski was buried in the Wagankowo Cemetery .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c RAN: Брагинский Владимир Борисович (accessed March 4, 2019).
  2. ↑ a b c Kip Thorne: In memory of Vladimir Borisovich Braginsky . In: Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk website . March 31, 2016 ( [1] accessed on March 5, 2019 [PDF]).
  3. ↑ a b Editorial - In Memoriam Vladimir Borisovich Braginsky . In: Physics Letters A . tape 382 , no. 33 , August 25, 2018, p. 2157-2164 , doi : 10.1016 / j.physleta.2018.05.025 .
  4. ↑ a b c Andreev AF , Bagaev SN , Bunkin FV , Vyatchanin SP, Gulyaev Yu V , Imshennik VS , Kardashev NS , Matveev VA , Rudenko OV , Ryazhskaya OG , Khokhlov AR , Cherepashchuk AM : Vladimir Borisovich Braginsky (on his 80th birthday) . In: Phys. Usp. tape 55 , 2012, p. 109–110 ( [2] accessed March 5, 2019).
  5. ↑ a b LIGO Mourns the Loss of Vladimir Braginsky (accessed March 5, 2019).
  6. ↑ MGU: История кафедрой физики колебаний (accessed March 4, 2019).
  7. ↑ MGU: Заведующие кафедрой физики колебаний (accessed March 4, 2019).
  8. ↑ Braginsky VB, Khalili F. Ya: Quantum Measurement . Cambridge University Press, 1992.
  9. ↑ Гравитационные волны - открыты! (accessed on March 4, 2019).
  10. ↑ Math-Net.Ru: Braginskii Vladimir Borisovich (accessed March 4, 2019).
  11. ↑ Special Breakthrough Prize In Fundamental Physics Awarded For Detection Of Gravitational Waves 100 Years After Albert Einstein Predicted Their Existence (accessed March 5, 2019).
personal data
SURNAME Braginski, Vladimir Borisovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Брагинский, Владимир Борисович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 2016
Place of death Moscow