Yakov Lvovich Alpert ( born Yakov Alpert ; March 1, 1911 , Ivnica , Zhytomyr Uyezd , Volyn Province - October 5, 2010 , Boston , USA [3] ) is a Soviet and American scientist in plasma physics and radiophysics.
| Yakov Lvovich Alpert | |
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| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Ivnitsa , Zhytomyr county , Volyn province , Russia |
| Date of death | |
| A place of death | Boston , USA |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Scientific field | plasma physics, radiophysics |
| Place of work | |
| Known as | nuclear program participant |
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Biography
The son of a petty merchant. In 1928 he graduated from school, but could not enter the Polytechnic Institute due to non-proletarian origin. He worked as a carpenter, handyman at a construction site, draftsman, heat engineer.
In 1931-1934 he was a technician at the Radio Institute of the People’s Commissariat of Communications at Shabolovka. Then he worked at the institutes of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR: Lebedev Physical Institute. Lebedev (1935-1951, dismissed as a result of the struggle against cosmopolitanism ) and the Institute of Magnetism and Radio Waves (IZMIRAN, 1952-1987, until 1974 the head of the department).
In 1939 he graduated in absentia from Moscow State University.
Member of the atomic program.
In 1987 he emigrated to the United States (he sought permission to leave since 1973, was removed from the department’s management, as this position required access to state secrets and did not automatically allow traveling abroad for 5 years after dismissal).
In the USA he lived near Boston.
Doctor of physical and mathematical sciences.
For the period 1936-2001 published 8 books in Russian and 11 in English. Including:
- Propagation of radio waves and the ionosphere Ya. L. Alpert; Acad. sciences of the USSR, Institute of terrestrial magnetism, ionosphere and radio wave propagation. M.: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1960 480 p. ill., tab.
- Waves and artificial bodies in surface plasma [Text] / Ya. L. Alpert. - Moscow: Nauka, 1974 .-- 216 p. : graph., tab.
- Radio Wave Propagation [Text] / Ya. L. Alpert et al. - Moscow: State. ed. tech.-theoret. lit., 1953. - 834 p. : ill. ; 27 cm
- Propagation of electromagnetic waves and the ionosphere [Electronic resource] / Ya. L. Alpert. - Ed. 2nd, rev. and additional .. - M.: Nauka, 1972. - 564 p.
He was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor (1967). The author of the book of memoirs “Making Waves: Stories from My Life” (Yale University Press, 2000. - 280 pp.).
Sources
Links
- http://www.lasius.narod.ru/died2010-10.htm
- http://www.sakharov-archive.ru/name-AG.htm#A
- YL Alpert, Tribute to the Scientific School of LI Mandelshtam.
- YL Alpert, Curriculum Vitae (PDF file).
- Lev Pitaevskii, Appreciation in Physics Reports 339, 2001.
- Obituary in American Geophysical Union, SPA Section Newsletter 17 (Issue 77), 2010.
- Obituary in Physics-Uspekhi 54 (Issue 5), 2011 (in Russian). Translation to English.
- Obituary in Boston Globe, October 17, 2010.