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Dmitri Ivanenko

Dmitri Ivanenko
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c.1930
Born (1904-07-29)29 July 1904
Poltava, Ukraine
Died December 30, 1994(1994-12-30) (aged 90)
Moscow, Russian Federation
Citizenship USSR
Nationality Ukraine
Fields Theoretical physics
Nuclear physics
Field theory
Gravitation
Institutions Moscow State University
Alma mater Leningrad State University
Doctoral students Arseny Sokolov
Gennadi Sardanashvily

Dmitri Dmitrievich Ivanenko (Ukrainian: Дмитро́ Дми́трович Іване́нко, Russian: Дми́трий Дми́триевич Иване́нко) (July 29, 1904, Poltava, present-day Ukraine – December 30, 1994, Moscow), Ukrainian physicist-theorist, made a great contribution to the physical science of the twentieth century, especially to nuclear physics, field theory, and gravitation theory. He worked in the Poltava Gravimetric Observatory of the Institute of Geophysics of NAS of Ukraine, was the head of the Theoretical Department Ukrainian Physico-Technical Institute in Kharkiv, Head of the Department of Theoretical Physics of the Kharkiv Institute of Mechanical Engineering. Professor of University of Kharkiv, Professor of Moscow State University (since 1943).

Dmitri Ivanenko was born on July 29, 1904 in Poltava, where he finished school, in 1920-1923 he studied at the Poltava Pedagogical Institute and began his creative path as a teacher of physics in middle school. Then D. D. Ivanenko studied at Kharkiv University, from which in 1923 he was transferred to Petrograd University. In 1926, while still a student, he wrote his first scientific works: with G. A. Gamov on the Kaluza–Klein five-dimensional theory and with L. D. Landau on the problems of relativistic quantum mechanics.


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