Rem Viktorovich Khokhlov (russian: link=no, Рем Викторович Хохлов; July 15, 1926, in

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– August 8, 1977, in

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) was a

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physicist and university teacher, rector of

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, one of the founders of

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Biography

Khokhlov was born in the family of political officer and graduate of the Moscow Energetic Institute Viktor Khristoforovich Khokhlov and physicist Maria Yakovlevna. He graduated from a seven-year school in 1941 and worked in a car workshop during the

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. In 1944, he externally passed exams in high school and began to study at the

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. In 1945, he moved to the Physics department at

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, where he spent his whole life. After graduating from university in 1948, he entered graduate school at the Department of Oscillation Physics. In 1952 he defended his thesis with the title of candidate of physical and mathematical sciences(PhD). With his investigations into vibrational physics he belonged to the third generation of the vibration physics school of Leonid I. Mandelstam and Nikolai D. Papaleksi. In 1959, he was sent to a one-year study visit to the

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at Stanford University. In 1962 he was awarded a doctorate (habilitation) in doctoral studies. Khokhlov organized together with S. A. Akhmanov, the first laboratory for

of the

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at the Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Selected publications

* Krasnushkin P. E., Khokhlov R. V. Spatial beats in coupled wave guides.

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, 1952. * * Kaner, V.V., Rudenko, O.V., Khokhlov, R.V. Theory Of Nonlinear Oscillations In Acoustic Resonators. Sov Phys Acoust. 1977

References

Honors

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Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" The Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (russian: link=no, Юбилейная медаль В ознаменование 100-летия со дня рождения Владимира И ...

* Lenin Prize (1970) * Foreign member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences *

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(1985) * Namesake for the asteroid (3739) Rem (posthumously 1993)

Footnotes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Khokhlov, Rem 1926 births People from Livny 1977 deaths Members of the Central Auditing Commission of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Soviet physicists Optical physicists Theoretical physicists Moscow State University alumni Academic staff of Moscow State University Recipients of the Lenin Prize Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Recipients of the USSR State Prize Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery Rectors of Moscow State University