Vladimir Konstantinovich Prokofiev

Wladimir Konstantinowitsch Prokofjew ( Russian Владимир Константинович Прокофьев ; * 1898 ; † 1993 ) was a Russian physicist and university teacher .

Life

Prokofiev graduated from the Mikhailovsky - Artillery School with completion in 1917 and then studied at the University of St. Petersburg Physics with completion in 1924 at Dmitri Rozhdestvensky .

Prokofiev had been working as a laboratory assistant in Dmitri Roschdestvenski's Optics Institute (GOI) now in Petrograd since 1919 . After graduating, he became a research assistant there. At the same time he began to teach at the University of Leningrad (1925-1932) and then at the Artillery Academy (1930-1937). In 1932 he became head of the spectroscopy department at the GOI and in 1935 head of the laboratory for spectral analysis . In 1936 he received his doctorate in physical and mathematical sciences . In 1944 he was appointed professor. In the Leningrad Institute for Precision Mechanics and Optics (LITMO) he headed the chair for spectroscopy from 1951 to 1953 and from 1953 to 1956 the chair for physical optics and spectroscopy.

In 1956, Prokofiev transferred to the Crimean Observatory because of his deteriorating health . In 1974 he became a member of the International Academy of Astronautics .

Honors

• Stalin Prize III. Class (1950) for new methods of spectral analysis of metals and alloys
• Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1958)
• State Prize of the USSR (1971)
• Order of Lenin
• Order of the October Revolution
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (four times)
• Order of the Red Star
• Medal "For heroic work in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} I. P. Gurov, Yu. L. Kolesnikova (Ed.): Live and Work of VK Prokofiev . ITMO University Press, St. Petersburg 2008.
2. ↑ ^{a b} ITMO Virtual Museum: Прокофьев Владимир Константинович (accessed January 31, 2017).
3. ↑ Государственный Оптический Институт им. С.И. Вавилова (accessed January 3, 2016).