Fisher, Joseph Zalmanovich

In 1926-1936, I.Z. Fisher studied at school. In 1936 he entered the Belarusian State University (BSU), at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics. He graduated from BSU with honors.

In June 1941, Joseph Zalmanovich was evacuated to the Stalingrad region . He was not drafted into the army due to poor vision. In the summer of 1942, I.Z. Fisher volunteered for the front. As a graduate of the physics and physics department, he served as a radio operator for a reconnaissance platoon of a separate howitzer regiment with the rank of sergeant. He was awarded several orders: the Order of the Red Star and the orders of the Patriotic War of the first and second degree , as well as medals.

In the fall of 1945, Joseph Zalmanovich Fisher was hired as an assistant to the Department of Theoretical Physics of BSU. Further, for two years, 1947-1948, Iosif Zalmanovich was a graduate student of the academician of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR Nikolai Sergeyevich Akulov at the Academy of Sciences of Belarus. After defending his dissertation in 1948, Iosif Zalmanovich returned to the Department of Theoretical Physics of BSU and worked at it as an assistant professor for 13 years (1948-1961).

In 1959, Joseph Zalmanovich successfully defended his doctoral dissertation . In 1961 , the publishing house "Science" published a book by I. Z. Fisher, " Statistical Theory of Liquids " ^[1] , which was one of the very first monographs in the world on this subject ^[2] . In 1964, an English translation of the book was published twice: in the USA and India ^[3] . The Chicago edition ^[4] contains additions by leading American scientists, reflecting the progress in this rapidly developing field since the Soviet edition of 1961. In 1961-1963 I.Z. Fisher is a professor at the Department of Nuclear Physics, BSU.

From 1963 to November 1977, Professor I.Z. Fisher worked as head of the Department of Theoretical Physics at Odessa University. I.I. Mechnikov , where he creates the Odessa scientific school of theoretical physics of liquids . In November 1977, Professor I.Z. Fisher suffered a stroke and was forced to move away from science.

Suddenly died on the evening of May 25, 1995 . He was buried at the second Christian cemetery in Odessa.

The research subject of I.Z. Fischer covers practically all questions of the physics of the liquid state of the second half of the 20th century, as well as a number of questions of the theory of gravity. A complete picture of his scientific interests can be obtained from consideration of the list of his publications. Thematically they relate to the following areas:

• statistical theory of bulk and surface properties of simple liquids;
• theory of critical phenomena in liquids and solutions;
• the nature of the anomalous properties of water and the theory of hydration;
• the behavior of impurities in liquid helium;
• theory of thermal hydrodynamic fluctuations, in particular, the Lagrangian theory of thermal hydrodynamic fluctuations;
• the theory of kinetic coefficients in liquids, in particular, the theory of collective transport;
• features of the thermal drift of Brownian particles;
• theory of molecular scattering of light in liquids and gases;
• properties of systems with Coulomb interaction: plasma, liquid metals and semiconductors;
• gravitational effects in scalar field theory;
• gravitational effects in the electron theory of Born-Infeld;
• macroscopic form of gravitational field equations;

• “Special Problems in Physics of Liquids - International Conference dedicated to the memory of Professor IZ FisherOdessa, Ukraine, 31 May - 4 June 1999”, Edited by Leonid A. Bulavin, Nikolay P. Malomuzh, Special issue of Journal of Molecular Liquids 93 ( 1-3) 2001, 240 p.