Mikhail Alexeevich Anisimov (Russian: Михаил Алексе́евич Анисимов, born November 2, 1941,
Baku
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,
Azerbaijan,
USSR) is a Russian and American interdisciplinary scientist.
Early life
Anisimov received a degree in petroleum engineering from
Grozny Petroleum Institute in 1964, a doctorate in physical chemistry from
Moscow State University in 1969, and a doctor of science degree in molecular and thermal physics from the
Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy in Moscow in 1976.
Career
From 1969 through 1977, Anisimov worked at the U.S.S.R.
State Committee for Standards and Product Quality Management (Russian: Госстандарт), where his postdoctoral mentor was Alexander V. Voronel.
From 1978 until 1993, Anisimov was a professor and the chairman of the Physics Department of
Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas
The Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas (russian: Российский государственный университет нефти и газа имени И. М. Губкина) is a public university in Moscow, Russia. The univer ...
. In 1994, Anisimov began working in the United States as a professor for both the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and for the Institute of Physical Science and Technology at the
University of Maryland, College Park.
Research
Anisimov’s field of research is thermodynamics of fluids and fluid mixtures, liquid crystals, polymers, and other soft-matter materials. His research group at the
University of Maryland (jointly with Jan V. Sengers
) is one of the leading international authorities in the field of critical phenomena and phase transitions. Anisimov works in theory and experiments, fundamental problems and applications. He has been an author and a co-author of 2 books, 14 book chapters and review articles and more than 400 published journal and encyclopedia articles, conference proceedings and reports.
Personal life
Anisimov has four children. His eldest daughter,
Tanya Anisimova
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, is a cellist and composer.
Honors and awards
*University System of Maryland Board of Regents’ Faculty Award, 2015
*Yeram S. Touloukian Award in Thermophysics
(
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
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), 2015
*Fellow of the
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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, 2014
*Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Engineering, 2013
*Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, 2013
*Poole and Kent Senior Teaching Award,
University of Maryland, College Park, 2007
*Foundation for Science and Technology International Award, Gunma University, Japan, 2006
*Member of the International Academy of Refrigeration (Ukrainian Branch), 2003
*Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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, 2002
*Fellow of the
American Physical Society
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, 1998
Bibliography (partial)
* M. A. Anisimov, “50 years of breakthrough discoveries in fluid criticality”, Int. J. Thermophys. 32, 2001–2009 (2011).
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* M. A. Anisimov, V. A. Rabinovich, and V. V. Sychev, "Thermodynamics of the Critical State of Individual Substances", English Edition: CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1995, 171 pages
References
External links
Terpconnect.umd.edu/~anisimov/Ench.umd.edu/faculty/anisimov/Lightscatteringcenter.umd.edu/
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Living people
1941 births
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
Moscow State University alumni
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Russian physicists
21st-century American physicists