Good day, dear subscribers! We present to Your attention several interesting biographies of outstanding scientists-thermophysicists.
Good day, dear subscribers! We present to Your attention several interesting biographies of outstanding scientists-thermophysicists.
Ivan Ivanovich Novikov (January 15 (28), 1916, Pobedinsky mine, Skopinsky uyezd, Ryazan province — may 30, 2014) was a Soviet scientist, a specialist in heat engineering, thermophysics and condensed matter physics. Director of MEPhI (1956-1958), Director Of the Institute of Thermophysics SB as USSR (1958-1964).
Doctor of technical Sciences (1948), Professor (1949), corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences Siberian Department (thermal engineering) March 28, 1958, academician (1992), Department of physico-technical problems of power engineering (Thermophysics). Winner of two Stalin prizes.
Valery Ivanovich Rachkov (July 14, 1947, Balashov, Saratov region) - Soviet and Russian physicist, top Manager. General Director (2010-2012), scientific Director (since 2012) of the Institute of Physics and energy, head of the Department of "Thermophysics" of the Moscow engineering physics Institute (since 2010). Doctor of technical Sciences, Professor, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Mikhail Petrovich Vukalovich, doctor of technical Sciences, Professor-founder of the scientific school of theoretical and experimental research of thermophysical properties of substances.
Under the scientific guidance of M. P. Vukalovich, for the first time in Russian science, tables of properties and conditions of water and water vapor in a wide range of temperatures and pressures were created, officially called the Vukalovich Tables. As a result of studies of thermodynamic processes in power plants, the Vukalovich Equation of state of water vapor was obtained. These tables have gained international recognition and have been used in engineering practice. M. P. Vukalovich led research on the thermophysical properties of technically important substances: carbon dioxide, mercury, liquid semiconductors. For these works, he was awarded the title of state prize winner in 1951.
In 1959, Vukalovich Mikhail Petrovich, together with Vladimir Kirillin, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences and Alexander Efimovich Sheindlin, was awarded the Lenin prize for theoretical and experimental studies of the thermophysical properties of water and water vapor at high parameters, published in 1956-1958.