National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) (russian: Национальный исследовательский ядерный университет "МИФИ" / НИЯУ МИФИ or ) is a technical university in Russia. It was founded in 1942 as the Moscow Mechanical Institute of Munitions (), but was soon renamed the Moscow Mechanical Institute. Its original mission was to train skilled personnel for the Soviet military and

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. It was renamed the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute () in 1953, which was its name until 2009. By the

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on April 8, 2009 (#480-r) on behalf of Russian President's Decree of October 7, 2008 (#1448) "On the pilot project launching on creating National Research Universities" MEPhI was granted this new status. The university was reorganized. The aim of the university existence is now preparing the specialists by giving them higher professional, post-graduation professional, secondary professional and additional professional education, as well as educational and scientific activities.
In 2022, QS World University rankings rated the university #308 in the world, World University Rankings by ''

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'' ranked the university #401 in the world, and '' U.S. News & World Report'' rated the university #445 in the world.

Academics

Today, MEPhI has nine main departments (faculties or institutes): * Institute of Nuclear Physics and Engineering * Institute for Laser and Plasma Technologies * Institute of Engineering Physics for Biomedicine * Institute of Nanoengineering in Electronics, Spintronics and Photonics * Institute of Cyber Intelligence Systems * Institute of Financial and Economic Security * Institute of International Relations * Faculty of Physics and Technology * Faculty of Business Informatics and Complex Systems Management The university offers bachelor, masters (and similar degree 'Specialist'), and post-graduate degrees in physics, mathematics, computer science and other areas. MEPhI facilities include a 2.5 MW (thermal) pool-type

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and Neutrino Water Detector NEVOD. The university has about 35,000 students at branches in Moscow and other towns. In Moscow are around 7,500 students (including over 1300 foreigners). It normally takes 4 - 5.5 (some sub-departments take six) years for a student to graduate from MEPhI. The curriculum of the first two years consists exclusively of required courses (core), with emphasis on mathematics, physics, experimental work and English. After the two first years of studying students on a competition basis enroll to the sub-departments which specialize in different branches of physics, computer science, information security, mathematics, etc.

MEPhI in leading international and national university rankings

In 2022, QS World University rankings rated the university #308 in the world, World University Rankings by ''

'' ranked the university #401 in the world, and '' U.S. News & World Report'' rated the university #445 in the world.

Student population

The student population is predominantly male. During the first years from MEPhI's foundation there was a ban against accepting women. In recent years this situation has changed.

Location

It is a 15-minute walk (or a five-minute bus ride) from the university to the

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station on the

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of the

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MOOC and other online resources

During 2016–18 MEPhI increased its presence in online educational platforms, namel
Coursera
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edX
(Eng)
Universarium
(Rus) and CLP4NET (Eng). By the end of 2018, MEPhI had provided 43 courses via those platforms, including 25 on

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and 11 on edX. In 2018, the number of students that joined MEPhI's online courses on the online platforms reached approximately 160,000 persons from 150 countries.

Notable people

* Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov () - Nobel Prize * Alexander Mikhajlovich Baldin () *

Anatoly Ivanovich Larkin Anatoly Ivanovich Larkin (russian: Анатолий Иванович Ларкин; October 14, 1932 – August 4, 2005) was a Russian theoretical physicist, universally recognised as a leader in theory of condensed matter, and who was also a cele ...

() *

Alexander Balankin Alexander Balankin (born March 3, 1958) is a Mexican scientist of Russian origin (:ru:Баланкин, Александр Сергеевич, Баланкин, Александр Сергеевич) whose work in the field of fractal mechanics an ...

() *

Igor Tamm Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm ( rus, И́горь Евге́ньевич Тамм , p=ˈiɡərʲ jɪvˈɡʲenʲjɪvitɕ ˈtam , a=Ru-Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm.ogg; 8 July 1895 – 12 April 1971) was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in ...

() - Nobel Prize * Anatoly Stepanovich Dyatlov - physicist *

Igor Kurchatov Igor Vasil'evich Kurchatov (russian: Игорь Васильевич Курчатов; 12 January 1903 – 7 February 1960), was a Soviet physicist who played a central role in organizing and directing the former Soviet program of nuclear weapo ...

() *

Lev Gor'kov Lev Petrovich Gor'kov (russian: Лев Петро́вич Горько́в; 14 June 1929 – 28 December 2016) was a Russian-American research physicist internationally known for his pioneering work in the field of superconductivity. He was particul ...

() *

Evgenii Feinberg Evgenii L'vovich Feinberg (27 June 1912 – 10 December 2005) was a Soviet physicist, recognized for his contributions to theoretical physics. He was the son of a physician, born in Baku, moving to Moscow in 1918 where he graduated from Moscow St ...

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Yuri Oganessian Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian (russian: Юрий Цолакович Оганесян ; ''Yuri Ts'olaki Hovhannisyan'' . Oganessian is the Russified version of the Armenian last name Hovhannisyan. The article on Oganessian in the ''Armenian Soviet ...

() - element 118 in Periodic Table named

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in his honor *

Isaak Pomeranchuk Isaak Yakovlevich Pomeranchuk (russian: Исаа́к Я́ковлевич Померанчу́к (Polish spelling: Isaak Jakowliewicz Pomieranczuk); 20 May 1913, Warsaw, Russian Empire – 14 December 1966, Moscow, USSR) was a Soviet Union, Sov ...

() *

Pavel Cherenkov Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (russian: Па́вел Алексе́евич Черенко́в ; July 28, 1904 – January 6, 1990) was a Soviet physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1958 with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm for the discove ...

() - Nobel Prize *

Ilya Mikhailovich Frank Ilya Mikhailovich Frank (russian: Илья́ Миха́йлович Франк; 23 October 1908 – 22 June 1990) was a Soviet winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1958 jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Igor Y. Tamm, also of the ...

() - Nobel Prize * Andrey Dmitrievich Sakharov () - Nobel Prize *

Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov (or Semënov), (russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Семёнов; – 25 September 1986) (often referred to in English as Semenoff, Semenov, Semionov, or Semyonova) was a Soviet physicist and chem ...

() - Nobel Prize *

Lev Okun Lev Borisovich Okun ( rus, Лев Борисович Окунь; 7 July 1929 – 23 November 2015) was a Soviet theoretical physicist. Early life and education He was born in Sukhinichi in 1929 in the Soviet Union, and graduated from Moscow Me ...

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Sergei Avdeyev Sergei Vasilyevich Avdeyev (Сергей Васильевич Авдеев; born 1 January 1956) is a Russian engineer and cosmonaut. Avdeyev was born in Chapayevsk, Samara Oblast (formerly Kuybyshev Oblast), Russian SFSR. He graduated from Mos ...

() - engineer and cosmonaut, record for time spent in space: 747.59 days *

Vyacheslav Starshinov Vyacheslav Ivanovich Starshinov (russian: Вячеслав Иванович Старшинов; born May 6, 1940 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Russian former ice hockey player, coach and executive. Starshinov played in the Soviet Hockey League fo ...

() - Olympic champion, world champion *

Igor Irodov Igor Yevgenyevich Irodov (russian: Игорь Евгеньевич Иродов; 16 November 1923 – 22 October 2002) was a Soviet Russian physicist and World War II veteran. He is mostly known as a physics professor at the Moscow Institut ...

- author of a series of handbooks on general physics. *

Lev Artsimovich Lev Andreyevich Artsimovich (Russian: Лев Андреевич Арцимович, February 25, 1909 – March 1, 1973), also transliterated Arzimowitsch, was a Soviet physicist who is regarded as the one of the founder of Tokamak— a device t ...

- known as "the father of the

Tokamak A tokamak (; russian: токамáк; otk, 𐱃𐰸𐰢𐰴, Toḳamaḳ) is a device which uses a powerful magnetic field to confine plasma in the shape of a torus. The tokamak is one of several types of magnetic confinement devices being d ...

" *

Dmitry Kholodov Dmitry Yuryevich Kholodov (russian: Дми́трий Ю́рьевич Хо́лодов; 21 July 1967 – 17 October 1994) was a Russians, Russian journalist who investigated corruption in the military and was assassinated on 17 October 1994 in M ...

() - Journalist who investigated corruption in the military and was assassinated on 17 October 1994 *

Mukhtar Ablyazov Mukhtar Qabyluly Ablyazov ( kk, Мұхтар Қабылұлы Әблязов, ''Muhtar Qabyluly Ábliazov''; born 16 May 1963) is a Kazakh businessman and political activist who served as chairman of Bank Turan Alem (BTA Bank), and is a co-fou ...

() - leader "Democratic choice of Kazakhstan", former minister of Energy, Industry and Trade in Kazakhstan (21 April 1998 – October 1999) * Elena Vesna - () psychologist and Vice-Rector of Educational Affairs.

References

External links

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