Vladimir Damgow

Vladimir Damgow, December 2005

Wladimir Nikolow Damgow (also Vladimir Nikolov Damgov written in Bulgarian Владимир Николов Дамгов ; born November 22, 1947 in Sofia ; † June 20, 2006 ) was a Bulgarian physicist , mathematician , union leader and parliamentarian . He has particularly contributed to the application of chaos theory in mechanical and radiophysical systems as well as in space studies.

Life

Vladimir Damgow was born in Sofia as the son of a lawyer and a French teacher. He received his first training in Sofia and at the Georgi-Benkowski- Gymnasium in Teteven , a small town in the Balkan Mountains, in the Lovetsch district . He studied at the Moscow University of Technology and received a diploma in computer science and engineering physics in 1971 . There he wanted to switch to the study of philosophy and devote himself in particular to the study of the ideas of Bertrand Russell , but did not get permission from the Bulgarian authorities. He excelled at chess and went on to the prestigious Lomonosov University , where he graduated in 1977received a diploma in radio physics and a doctorate in physics and mathematics in the same year. He worked for several years on space research projects at the Soviet Academy of Sciences .

In 1992 Vladimir Damgow was appointed Doctor of Science from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences . He became a professor at the Institute of Spatial Science of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, where he headed the Department of Nonlinear Space Dynamics. He has filed 17 patents and wrote over 250 publications.

Despite a remarkable career in the Soviet Union and Bulgaria, he never joined the Communist Party. After the fall of communism, he joined the Bulgarian Socialist Party and became a leader of the Union of Bulgarian Scientists ( Săjuz na učenite v Bălgarija, Union of Scientists in Bulgaria ) and its vice-president.

In 2005, Vladimir Damgow stood for parliamentary elections on the list of the Bulgarian Socialist Party in the Lovech district and was elected member of the 40th Bulgarian Parliament ( Narodno Sabranie ). In his first few weeks as a new member of parliament, he headed a bipartisan commission to investigate the serious pollution incidents in the city of Stara Sagora . He was a member of the Education and Research Commission and the Defense Commission. He was chairman of the Bulgarian delegation to the Western European Union ( Eurofor ). In December 2005, less than six months after his election, Vladimir Damgow was diagnosed with acute leukemia. He died in Hanover on June 20, 2006 before a blood stem cell transplant could be performed at the Hanover Medical School ( MHH ). He was buried in Teteven on June 29th.

Publications

• Nonlinear and Parametric Phenomena - Theory and Applications in Radiophysical and Mechanical Systems - World Scientific (Series on Nonlinear Science) - New Jersey, London, Singapore, Beijing - (2004).
• Advances in Space Research , Elsevier Publishers, Amsterdam, (1991).
• Earth, Moon and Planets , Springer Verlag, Berlin (1992) with DB Douboshinsky, (1993).

Patents

• Methods and Devices for Implementation of Low-Noise Wide-Band Negative Resistances, Negative Capacitances and Negative Inductances (Patents of Republic of Bulgaria, No 25959, No 25960, No 25961, No 25971, No 29260 and No 30008).
• Method and Device for Measuring Biological Membranes (Patent of Republic of Bulgaria, No 29993).
• Multielectrode Modulation Device for Measuring the Interplanetary Plasma (Patent of the Republic of Bulgaria No 45821).
• Short-Range Autodyne System (Patent of the Republic of Bulgaria No 45520).
• Short-Range Radar (Patent of the Republic of Bulgaria No 47466).
• One-Band Modulator (Patent of the Republic of Bulgaria No 35731), with DV Stoyanov.
• Linear Reciprocating Electric Motor (Patent of the Republic of Bulgaria No 44194), with YB Douboshinsky and MI Kozakov.
• Microwave Emitter (Patent of the Republic of Bulgaria No. 44197), with DB Douboshinsky and YB Douboshinsky.
• Inductive Sensor - Spectrum Analyzer (Patent of the Republic of Bulgaria No 30009).