Vladimir Alexandrovich Kotelnikov
Wladimir Alexandrowitsch Kotelnikow ( Russian Владимир Александрович Котельников , scientific transliteration Vladimir Aleksandrovič Kotelnikov ; born September 6, 1908 in Kazan ; † February 11, 2005 in Moscow ) was a Soviet electrical engineer and information technology technician in the field of radio technology .
activity
Kotelnikow was the son of the mathematician Alexander Petrovich Kotelnikow and the grandson of the mathematician Pyotr Ivanovich Kotelnikow . In the years 1926–1931 Kotelnikow studied radio technology at the Energy Institute (MEI). He has a PhD in engineering. 1931–1941 he worked as an engineer, assistant, laboratory manager and lecturer at the MEI. Between 1941 and 1944 he worked in industrial companies and on the development of telecommunications equipment. Kotelnikow worked as a lecturer, professor and chair at the MEI from 1944 to 1980. From 1953 to 1987 he was deputy director and from 1954 director of the Institute for Radio Technology and Electronics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (IRE / RAW). In 1987 he became honorary director there. From 1970 to 1988 he was Vice President of RAW and from 1988 adviser to the Presidium.
Honors
- 1967 Honorary doctorate from the Czech Technical University.
- 1995 Honorary doctorate from the St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University.
- 1999 Basic Prize from the Eduard Rhein Foundation
- State Prize of the USSR (2 x)
- Lenin Prize
- Hero of Socialist Labor (2 ×)
- as well as the Popov, Lomonossow and Keldysch gold medals.
- In 1984 the asteroid (2726) Kotelnikov was named after him.
Publications
Kotelnikow wrote three books and over eighty scientific articles.
In 1933 Kotelnikow formulated and published the WKS sampling theorem for the first time in a mathematically exact manner . This publication in a Soviet conference report has been referenced in the East since the 1950s, but remained largely unknown in general in the West until the 1980s. Since then it has been increasingly referred to as the Whittaker-Kotelnikow-Shannon sampling theorem. Vladimir Kotelnikow became known worldwide among the theorists of communication technology through his work on interference-insensitive communications from 1947.
In the 1950s and 1960s he then played a leading role in the communications aspects of the Soviet satellite program. Then he dealt with problems of radio and radar astronomy. Today he is considered the nestor of Russian communication technology.
The central importance of the sampling theorem for all modern communication technology gave rise to award Kotelnikow the 1999 Eduard Rhein Basic Prize .
See also
Publications
- WA Kotelnikow: On the transmission capacity of "ether" and wire in electrocommunications, Izd. Red. Upr. Svjazi RKKA (1933),
- German title for example: About the transmission capacity of the "ether" and of cables in electronic communication technology , reports of the first all-Soviet conference on the reconstruction of the telecommunications sector and the development of low-voltage technology, Moscow 1933
- English translation (PDF) (378 kB)
- Reprinted in: Modern Sampling Theory: Mathematics and Applications (book presentation) , editors: JJ Benedetto and PJSG Ferreira, Birkhauser (Boston) 2000, ISBN 0-8176-4023-1
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kotelnikow, Vladimir Alexandrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Котельников, Владимир Александрович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kazan |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 11, 2005 |
| Place of death | Moscow |