Yuri Ilyich Halperin (1932-2001) - Russian geophysicist and space physicist, laureate of the USSR State Prize (1986).
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| Date of Birth | September 14, 1932 |
| Date of death | December 28, 2001 (69 years old) |
| Scientific field | geophysics , cosmophysics |
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Biography
Born in Moscow on September 14, 1932 (father, Ilya Romanovich Halperin (1905, Simferopol - 1984), - head of the department of stylistics of the English language faculty at the Moris Torez Institute of Foreign Languages; mother, Nadezhda Mikhailovna Galperina, - French language teacher there )
He graduated from the astronomical department of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University (with honors), the head of the diploma project is I. S. Shklovsky. In 1955−1967 he worked in the upper atmosphere department at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1955−1958 - at the Northern Polar Geophysical Scientific Station Loparskaya, Kola Peninsula. He was engaged in the preparation of equipment for ground-based observations. He developed instruments for measuring charged particles of the magnetosphere in various energy ranges, measuring thermal plasma, and for spectrophotometry.
In February 1959 he defended his thesis. He was the head of scientific experiments conducted using equipment installed on the Cosmos-3 and Cosmos-5 satellites (1960-1962).
In 1967, together with part of his department, he was transferred to the newly organized Space Research Institute (IKI). He headed the laboratory of physics of auroras, later renamed the laboratory of physics of magnetospheric processes. He conducted experiments on the Cosmos-261 and Cosmos-348 satellites (1970), Halo-1 (1971-1972), Halo-2 (1973-1974) and Halo-3 (1981-1986) )
In 1968 he received a doctorate in physical and mathematical sciences (the topic of the dissertation is “Geophysical effects of high-altitude thermonuclear explosions”).
In 1986, the USSR State Prize was awarded for the creation of the scientific complex of the ARKAD-3 project.
He died in Moscow on December 28, 2001 from a heart attack. He was buried at the Don cemetery .