Dmitri Ivanenko | |
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c.1930
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Born |
Poltava, Ukraine |
29 July 1904
Died | December 30, 1994 Moscow, Russian Federation |
(aged 90)
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.