Aleksandr Mikhailovich Baldin (Russian: Александр Михайлович Балдин) (February 26, 1926, Moscow – April 29, 2001) was a Soviet and Russian
physicist
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Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...
, expert in the field of physics of elementary particles and high energy physics.
After finishing the railway technical school, he studied in the
Moscow Institute of Engineers and Transport, followed by a DSc program in
Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) (russian: Национальный исследовательский ядерный университет "МИФИ" / НИЯУ МИФИ or ) is a technical un ...
completing in 1949, when he became a professor in
Lebedev Physical Institute. In 1968, he was named the director of Laboratory of High Energy Physics in the
Institute for Nuclear Research (ОИЯИ) in Dubna, where the Soviet nuclear weapons were developed. He was elected a member of
Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...
and a faculty of
Moscow State University. He was the co-designer of the project of synchrophasotron ОИЯИ (1949). He received the
Lenin Prize (1988).
Biography
He graduated from the railway technical school, and then entered to the
Moscow State University of Railway Engineering
The Russian University of Transport (RUT (MIIT); russian: «Российский университет транспорта», РУТ (МИИТ)), officially the Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education "Russian University of tran ...
. In 1946, as an excellent student, he was invited to continue his studies at the
Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) (russian: Национальный исследовательский ядерный университет "МИФИ" / НИЯУ МИФИ or ) is a technical un ...
(MEPI). After graduation in 1949, he was sent to the
Lebedev Physical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (PIAS), where he later defended his PhD and became a professor.
In 1952, he became a master of sports in
mountaineering
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and the champion of the USSR.
He was chairman of the Council on Electromagnetic Interactions of the
Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...
, a member of the Bureau of the Nuclear Physics Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, chief editor of the journal Elementary Particles and Atomic Nuclei (EPAN) and “ Letters to EPAN”, the member of the editorial boards of many scientific publications. He organized several international seminar on High Energy Physics (since 1969).
References
1926 births
2001 deaths
Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Moscow Engineering Physics Institute alumni
Recipients of the Lenin Prize
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Officers of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class
Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Recipients of the USSR State Prize
Soviet physicists
Burials at Vagankovo Cemetery