Matvei Rabinovich, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Matvei Rabinovich

Russian plasma physicist

Date of Birth: 20-Feb-1919

Place of Birth: Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia

Date of Death: 20-May-1982

Profession: physicist, mathematician

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Matvei Rabinovich

  • Matvei (or Matvey) Samsonovich Rabinovich (Russian:?????? ?????????? ?????????) (20 February 1919 - 20 May 1982) was a Russian plasma physicist and mathematician. He was born in Kazan, Tatarstan.
  • After he had completed his schooling, he worked in a metal plant for a few years.
  • In 1941, he graduated from the Physics faculty of Moscow State University.
  • After seeking the advice of a senior fellow (and eventual Nobel laureate), Vitaly Ginzburg, he was persuaded by Ginzburg to apply for a postgraduate course at FIAN (the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (LPI)).
  • Rabinovich became a postgraduate student of Evgenii Feinberg and a junior researcher in the LPI from 1945, once Ginzburg had changed Feinberg's mind about accepting him; this arrangement notwithstanding, Feinberg told Rabinovich not even to call him.
  • From 1948, he was a senior researcher in Vladimir Veksler's laboratory (and he later wrote his epitaph in the scientific press).
  • That year he also gained a Ph.D.
  • in Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
  • From the early 1950s, he was established as a leading Soviet expert in accelerator theory and, along with Veksler, received state prizes for his work.
  • In particular, he supported research on stellarators.
  • In 1957, he started the LPI's Laboratory for Fusion and Plasma Physics.
  • In 1959, he was granted a professorship at the LPI.
  • He founded the journal Fizika Plasmy (Plasma Physics).He remained in his role as the head of the laboratory for the remainder of his life.
  • He died in Moscow aged 63 after a long illness.

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