Vladimir Alexandrovich Marchenko (russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Ма́рченко, uk, Володи́мир Олекса́ндрович Ма́рченко; born 7 July 1922) is a
Soviet
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mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
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who specializes in
mathematical physics
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.
Biography
Vladimir Marchenko was born in
Kharkiv
Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.Naum Landkof, and in 1951 he defended his DSc thesis. He worked in
Kharkiv University
The Kharkiv University or Karazin University ( uk, Каразінський університет), or officially V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University ( uk, Харківський національний університет імені ...
until 1961. For 4 decades, he headed the Mathematical Physics Department at the
B Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering
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of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
He was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1962, the N. N. Krylov Prize in 1980, the State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR in 1989, and the N. N. Bogolyubov prize in 1996. Since 1969 he is a member of the
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
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, since 1987 of the
Russian Academy of Sciences
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and since 2001 of the
Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters
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Marchenko made fundamental contributions to the analysis of the Sturm–Liouville operators. He introduced one of the approaches to the inverse scattering problem for Sturm–Liouville operators, and derived what is now called the Marchenko equation.
Random matrices
Together with
Leonid Pastur
Leonid Andreevich Pastur ( uk, Леонід Андрійович Пастур, russian: Леонид Андреевич Пастур) (born 21 August 1937) is a Ukrainian mathematical physicist and theoretical physicist, known in particular for co ...