Fiodar Fiodaraŭ (, , , Fedor Ivanovich Fedorov), June 19, 1911–October 13, 1994, was a Soviet and Belarusian
physicist
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whose scientific interests ranged from
optics
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and
spectroscopy
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Spectro ...
to the theory of
elementary particles
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.
Biography
He was born in the village of Turets in
Karelichy Raion,
Hrodna Voblast, Belarus, to a family of rural schoolteachers, but his father,
Ivan Michaiłavič Fiodaraŭ, later became a famous Belarusian writer.
During the
Second World War
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, Fiodaraŭ worked in the city of
Kiselevsk in
Novosibirsk
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Region as an associate professor of
Moscow Aviation Institute
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. In 1943 he became the dean of the Physics Faculty of the
Belarusian State University
The Belarusian State University (BSU) (, ; ) is a university in Minsk, Belarus. It was founded on October 30, 1921. The university was ranked 387th in the world in the 2023 QS World University Rankings.
History 1919–1949
On February 25, 1919, ...
which had resumed its work near the
Skhodnya
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railroad station outside Moscow while
Belarus
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was still under
occupation. He was in office until 1950.
He took an active part in the organization of the Institute of Physics and Mathematics of the
Belarus Science Academy and was the leader of one of the four major laboratories there (the laboratory of
theoretical physics
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) until 1987.
Until the end of his life Fiodaraŭ was a professor at the Belarusian State University. He was also a prolific writer and published over 400 research articles.
See also
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Imbert–Fiodaraŭ effect
External links
Biography(in Russian)
dedicated to his 90th birthday (in Russian)
1911 births
1994 deaths
People from Karelichy district
Belarusian physicists
Soviet physicists
Academicians of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Belarusian State University alumni
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