Lyudmila Valerievna Volkova (12.24.1940 - 07.07.2016) - Russian scientist in the field of muon physics of cosmic rays and atmospheric neutrinos, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences.
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| Date of Birth | December 24, 1940 |
| Date of death | July 4, 2016 (aged 75) |
| Scientific field | muon physics of cosmic rays and atmospheric neutrinos |
| Academic degree | Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences |
She graduated from the Physics Department of Moscow State University (1964). Research intern at the neutrino laboratory (1964-1966), junior research fellow (1966-1971) at the Physical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Since 1971, she worked at the Institute of Nuclear Research of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (RAS), where the neutrino laboratory was transferred: a junior, senior researcher, and since 2003 a leading researcher at the Department of High Energy Leptons and Neutrino Astrophysics (OLENA).
Together with her teacher, academician T. G. Zatsepin, she determined the values of the neutrino-nucleon interaction cross section at energies up to 100 GeV, which were later confirmed by experiments on accelerators.
One of the founders of a new scientific field - neutrino geoscopy.
Author of scientific research on high-energy charm generation.
Doctor of Physics and Mathematics (1991, thesis topic "Atmospheric neutrinos and neutrinos from accelerators in cosmic ray physics and neutrino geoscopy").
She was awarded the medal "In memory of the 850th anniversary of Moscow" (1997).