Valery Alexeyevna Troitskaya

Valery Alexeyevna Troitskaya

Walerija Alexejewna Troitskaya ( Russian Валерия Алексеевна Троицкая * November 15 ^{. Jul} / 28 November  1917 ^greg. In Petrograd ; † 21st January 2010 in Melbourne ) was a Russian geophysicist .

Life

Troitskaya attended the German Petri School in Leningrad . She was very athletic, played the piano , spoke fluent French and German and later learned English . After graduating from school in 1934, she studied physics with a focus on geophysics at the University of Leningrad . In 1937, during the Great Terror , her father was arrested by the NKVD as an enemy of the people . She then sent a telegram to Lavrenti Beria . Her father was released three years later. In 1940 she finished her studies. During the German-Soviet war she was in Kazan evacuated and gave officers of the Red Army German language teaching. After the end of the war she returned to Leningrad and married the nuclear physicist Alexander Waisenberg, with whom she had twins Katja and Peter in 1946. In 1947 they moved to Moscow .

In 1950 Troitskaya began her scientific work as an aspirant in the Institute of Geophysics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . She specialized in the micropulsations of the earth's magnetic field , which take place at extremely low frequencies (ultra low frequency (ULF)). In 1953 she received her doctorate as a candidate for physical and mathematical sciences . During the International Geophysical Year 1957/1958, she organized a network for earth current observation with 19 stations at various locations in Russia from Lowozero to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky . From 1962 she headed the department for the earth's magnetic field (until 1989).

From 1964 to 1979 she organized on the Soviet side, the Soviet- French project to measure the earth's magnetic field and the ionosphere of conjugated places in the Northern Hemisphere (Sorga in Arkhangelsk ) and the southern hemisphere ( Kerguelen - Archipelago ). At the invitation of the French scientists, she dived in the Bathyscaphe Archimède to measure the earth's magnetic field, 2500 m deep on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea . Her studies of the earth's magnetic field pulsations allowed her to draw conclusions about the interplanetary magnetic field in connection with the solar wind , which were later confirmed.

From 1972 to 1980 Troitskaya was President of the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) . She was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and several foreign academies, such as the Finnish Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . She was an associate of the Royal Astronomical Society . She worked on the Committee on Space Research . She was an honorary member of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics and a member of its office. She was a member of the Steering Committee of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program from 1986 to 1990. Her more than 300 scientific papers have been cited more than 1000 times.

After the death of her husband Alexander Waisenberg in 1985, Troitskaya left the Soviet Union and in 1989 married Keith Cole, professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne . They worked together in different places around the world, especially at the Goddard Space Flight Center . Eventually they settled in Melbourne.

At the American Geophysical Union's spring meeting in 1996, Margaret Kivelson and David Southwood organized the symposium ULF Waves: A Tribute to Valeria Troitskaya .

Honors

• Order of Friendship of Peoples (1975)
• Tschischewski -Medal (2007) for services to patriotic cosmonautics
• Honorary Professorship of La Trobe University in Melbourne

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Н. Г. Клейменова: В.А. Троицкая - основатель школы по изучению геомагнитных пульсаций (accessed October 6, 2016).
2. ↑ Valery Troitskaya: Telegram to Beria . In: Neva . No. 6 , 2000, pp. 165-174 .
3. ↑ Valerija Alekseevna Troickaja: Short-period disturbances of the electromagnetic earth field . In: Publication by the Institute for Applied Geophysics at the Bergakademie Freiberg . No. 16 , 1955.
4. ↑ VA Troitskaya, TA Plyasova, AV Gulelmi: Connection of PC2-4 pulsations with interplanetary magnetic field . In: Doklady Akad. Nauk SSSR . tape 197 , 1971, p. 1312 .
5. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Valeria A. Troitskaya at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on January 10, 2017.
6. ↑ Margaret Kivelson: ULF Waves: A Tribute to Valeria Troitskaya . In: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union . tape 77 , 1996, pp. 417 .