Vladimir Borisovich Berestetsky

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Vladimir Borissowitsch Berestetski ( Russian Владимир Борисович Борисович Берестецкий , English cited VB Berestetski ; born October 3, 1913 in Kharkov , Charkov Governorate , Russian Empire ; † January 25, 1977 ) was a Russian theoretical physicist .

Career

Vladimir Berestetsky attended school in Kharkov and then worked in a factory as a worker. In 1932 he moved to Leningrad , where he worked in an opto-mechanical company and made up for his school leaving certificate at night school (for which he only needed a year). He then studied at the Lebedev Institute (LPI) in Leningrad with a degree in 1937. He then went to the Physics-Technical Institute (LFTI) in Leningrad, where he received his doctorate in 1940. During the Second World War he was the chief engineer in an armaments factory. From 1944 he was back at the LFTI, but then moved to Laboratory 3 of the Academy of Sciences under Alichanow. From 1947 he was at the department of theoretical physics at Lomonosov University (MGU), where he completed his habilitation in 1948 (Russian doctorate). He was also at the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) near Pomeranschuk, who he succeeded in 1966 after his death. At the request of Lew Landau , he became a lecturer at the MGU from 1953. In 1955 he was given a chair there, which he held until 1976.

From the end of the 1940s and thereafter he was a close collaborator of Isaak Pomeranschuk , in whose group he also worked on the Soviet hydrogen bomb from 1950 to the end of 1952 (assessment of the energy release).

He worked on nuclear physics in the early 1940s (for example on nuclear fission with Arkadi Migdal 1940). In 1949 he published with Lew Landau on relativistic quantum mechanics (calculation of the fine structure in the lowest order). He wrote in 1953 with Aleksander Akhiezer a well-known, also translated into English and German textbook on quantum electrodynamics , and so did the Soviet Union the methods from the West known as this by the work of Julian Schwinger , Richard Feynman and Freeman Dyson in the USA from 1948 were revolutionized. Later he was co-author of the volume Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) in the well-known textbook series by Lew Landau and Jewgeni Lifschitz . Lifschitz approached Berestetski after Landau's serious accident in 1962, and the volume was published in 1968. He worked with Pomeranschuk on quantum field theory in the early 1960s.

Fonts

  • with Achijeser Quanten-Elektrodynamik , Frankfurt am Main, Harri Deutsch 1962 (German edition), Russian original: Moscow, Gostechizdat, 1953, Nauka 1959, 4th edition 1981, English Quantum Electrodynamics , New York, Consultants Bureau 1957, 2nd edition, Wiley 1965
  • with Jewgeni Lifschitz , Lew Petrowitsch Pitajewski : Quantum Electrodynamics , Akademie Verlag, Harri Deutsch, 7th edition 1991.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Laurie Brown, Helmut Rechenberg Origin of the concept of nuclear forces , IOP 1996, Chapter 12
  2. ↑ JETP, Vol. 19, 1949, p. 673 (and Berestetski p. 1130)
personal data
SURNAME Berestetsky, Vladimir Borisovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Берестецкий. Владимир Борисович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Kharkiv
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1977