Yuri Vasilyevich Gulyayev (russian: Юрий Васильевич Гуляев) — (born 18 September 1935 in Tomilino,

Moscow Oblast Moscow Oblast ( rus, Моско́вская о́бласть, r=Moskovskaya oblast', p=mɐˈskofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ), or Podmoskovye ( rus, Подмоско́вье, p=pədmɐˈskovʲjə, literally "under Moscow"), is a federal subject of Rus ...

) is a Soviet and Russian physicist and

inventor An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition, idea or process. An invention may be an improvement upon a machine, product, or process for increasing efficiency or lowering cost. It may also be an entirely new concept. If an ...

, Full Member and Member of the Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences (1992), head of the Semiconductor Electronics chair in the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1971). Yuri Gulyayev works in the field of

solid-state physics Solid-state physics is the study of rigid matter, or solids, through methods such as quantum mechanics, crystallography, electromagnetism, and metallurgy. It is the largest branch of condensed matter physics. Solid-state physics studies how the l ...

, radiophysics, electronics, computer science and medical electronics. Gulyayev is a pioneer in the fields of modern physics: acousto-electronics, acousto-optics, spin wave electronics. IRE RAS Website
Academician of Russian Academy of Sciences Professor Yuri V. Gulyaev
In 1995, the International Astronomical Union named the

asteroid An asteroid is a minor planet of the inner Solar System. Sizes and shapes of asteroids vary significantly, ranging from 1-meter rocks to a dwarf planet almost 1000 km in diameter; they are rocky, metallic or icy bodies with no atmosphere. ...

1976 YB2 as

6942 Yurigulyaev __NOTOC__ Year 694 ( DCXCIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 694 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar e ...

.JPL Small-Body Database Browser 6942 Yurigulyaev (1976 YB2)
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Honours and awards

* Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd and 4th class * USSR State Prize, twice (1974, 1984) *

EPS Europhysics Prize The EPS CMD Europhysics Prize is awarded (currently every 2nd year) since 1975 by the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society, in recognition of recent work (completed in the 5 years preceding the attribution of the award) by one ...

(1979) * Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1985) * Order of Honour (2006) *

State Prize of the Russian Federation The State Prize of the Russian Federation, officially translated in Russia as Russian Federation National Award, is a state honorary prize established in 1992 following the breakup of the Soviet Union. In 2004 the rules for selection of laureates ...

(2006)

References

1935 births 20th-century Russian physicists Living people Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Foreign members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology alumni Academic staff of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology People from Lyuberetsky District Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia) Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Recipients of the USSR State Prize State Prize of the Russian Federation laureates {{Russia-scientist-stub Soviet inventors Soviet physicists