Lev Barkov | |
Birth Name: | Lev Mitrofanovich Barkov |
Birth Date: | 24 October 1928 |
Birth Place: | Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union |
Death Place: | Novosibirsk, Russian Federation |
Fields: | physics |
Workplaces: | Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics Novosibirsk State University Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy |
Alma Mater: | Lomonosov Moscow State University |
Awards: | 1989 USSR State Prize |
Lev Mitrofanovich Barkov (ru|Лев Митрофанович Барков; October 24, 1928, in Moscow – February 9, 2013, in Novosibirsk) was a Russian physicist, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (since 1984),[1] Professor at the Novosibirsk State University (since 1973) and Laureate of the 1989 USSR State Prize.
He graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1952 with a dissertation on classified neutron research, continued from then at the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy. A few years later, the Kurchatov Institute sent Barkov as part of the Soviet delegation to the 1955 UN conference in Geneva on "Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy".[2]
Since 1967 he worked at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics within the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ru|Сибирское отделение Российской академии наук CO PAN) in Novosibirsk, Russia.
He taught at the Novosibirsk State University since 1967, as a professor since 1973, and he was also a department chair.
From 1976 to 1979, Barkov served as the Dean of the Faculty of Physics of the Novosibirsk State University.
He was awarded: