Valentin Vital'yevich Rumyantsev (ru: Валенти́н Вита́льевич Румя́нцев) (19 July 1921, Novaya Skatovka,
Saratov
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region — 10 June 2007,
Moscow) — was a Russian engineer and
control theorist who played a crucial role in
Soviet space program. He was the member of the
Russian Academy of Sciences (1992), Department of Engineering, Mechanics and Control.
Career
Professor of the
Moscow State University,
Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics,
Department of Theoretical Mechanics and Mecatronics.
Editor of the
Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics
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(russian: Прикладная математика и механика).
Corresponding member (1995), member (2000) of
International Academy of Astronautics (
France,
Paris).
1921 births
2007 deaths
Early spaceflight scientists
Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian aerospace engineers
Soviet engineers
Soviet space program personnel
Academic staff of Moscow State University
Control theorists
Foreign members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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