Biography
COVID-19 In 2020, the life of a number of Russian celebrities took place. Often, the cunning virus accompanied or preceded diseases that broke the biographies of scientists, politicians and cultural figures. In mid-November 2020, the director Roman Viktyuk died, who has a coronavirus infection caused thromboembolism. After 12 days, Vladimir Fortov passed away, who created the dynamic physics of a nonideal plasma and was an outstanding research organizer. Commander Vladimir Evgenievich call the scientist "the last knight of science."Childhood and youth
The future president of the Russian Academy of Sciences was born on January 23, 1946 in Noginsk. In the city, located in the midst of kilometers from Moscow, three enterprises of the defense industry are now working, in one of which the father of Volodya Evgeny Viktorovich worked, subsequently, who served as an armament engineer and the main energy of 30 Central Bank of the Ministry of Defense. Mother was a teacher of history.
After graduating from the School of Silver Medal at 16, Ford Jr. entered the air physical faculty. In the main forge of Soviet engineering staff, Vladimir's achievement was assessed first with a red diploma, and then assigning the degree of a candidate of physico-mathematical sciences. At 31 years old, the physicist defended his doctoral dissertation
Scientific activity
The scientific interests of Fortov were in the field of physics of high energy densities. Vladimir Evgenievich's labor biography began with the post of junior researcher at the Institute of Chemical Physics in the village of Chernogolovka, headed by the Nobel laureate Nikolai Semenov.In the 1940s of the 20th century, the graduate of the Nikolai Bauman Institute was attracted to the work of the Nikolai Bauman Institute, a graduate of the Nikolai Bauman Institute was on the recommendation of Academician Yakov Zeldovich, soon became a scientific consultant to his doctoral dissertation.
Forts - author of over nine hundred published scientific works and three dozen monographs. The most famous books of Vladimir Evgenievich - "imperfect plasma" and "extreme states of matter on Earth and in space." The MFTI graduate developed generators of powerful shock waves and carried out experimental studies of the properties of plasma-dust crystals.
In 1987, Vladimir Evgenievich became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union - a valid member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). From 1996 to 2001, the scientist was the Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and from 2013 to 2017 - her head. Narzenitsa Noginsk opposed the reform of the Academy of Sciences leading to the growth of the bureaucratic apparatus and the reduction of fundamental research. In May 2015, Fortov became a guest of the Program of the First Channel "Posner".
Personal life
The physicist was happy in his personal life. In 1971, Tatiana Nikolaevna's wife presented to Vladimir Evgenievich's daughter to Light. Svetlana Vladimirovna went through the father's footsteps and at the age of 27 she defended his dissertation on modeling the flow of viscous gas.
Forts freely owned English. Judging by the photo, Vladimir Evgenievich dislike the tie and at the conference and the defense of the theses often came either without it, or with a weakened tongue node.
In his youth, the scientist became a master of sports of the USSR for basketball and sailing. In the mid-10th of the 20th century, the physicist went around the yacht Cape Horn and Cape of Good Hope, crossed the Atlantic Ocean. For this achievement Vladimir Evgenievich awarded the right to carry a copper earring in the right ear and receive the second charm of Roma in any port of the world to the world for free. Also, forts were fond of skiing, tennis and piloting.
Death
Former President of the Russian Academy of Sciences died on November 29, 2020. In an interview with Westam.ru, the successor of Fortov as the head of the RAS physicist Alexander Sergeev said that the cause of the death of Vladimir Evgenievich, who was treated from coronavirus infection, became a stroke. The official website of the Ministry of Energy of Russia condolences expressed the head of the department Nikolai Schulginov.