Arseny Sokolov
Arseny Alexandrovich Sokolov (Russian: Арсе́ний Алекса́ндрович Соколо́в; 19 March 1910, Novosibirsk, Russian Empire — 19 October 1986, Moscow, USSR) was a Russian theoretical physicist known for the development of synchrotron radiation theory.
Biography
Arseny Sokolov graduated from Tomsk State University (TSU) in 1931. He obtained the degree of Kandidat nauk (Candidat of Science, equivalent to Ph.D.) from TSU under supervision of Piotr Tartakovsky (1934). The degree of Doktor nauk (Doctor of Science) was obtained by him from Leningrad Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute (1942, at that time in evacuation in Kazan).
Then he moved to Moscow State University (MSU), where he held the positions of the dean of the Faculty of Physics (1948—1954) and the head of the Theoretical Physics Department at the Faculty of Physics (1966—1982).
Research
Arseny Sokolov research areas were quantum field theory and elementary particle physics.
- Together with Dmitri Ivanenko he worked on the development of the synchrotron radiation theory. His collaboration with Dmitry Ivanenko continued for almost 50 years.
- Together with Igor Ternov he discovered new quantum effects in microscopic particle motion such as Quantum Fluctuations of Electron Trajectories in Accelerators[1] and the Effect of Radiative Polarization of Electrons and Positrons in a Magnetic Field[2][3] known as Sokolov–Ternov effect. Arseny A. Sokolov was a member of the Soviet Communist Party, a dean and secretary of bureau of the Communist Party of the Physics Department of the Moscow State University.
Selected publications
Books
- A. A. Sokolov, I. M. Ternov, Synchrotron Radiation, Elsevier, 1969. ISBN 0080129455.
- A. A. Sokolov, I. M. Ternov, Synchrotron Radiation from Relativistic Electrons (edited by C. W. Kilmister), American Inst. of Physics, New York, 1986. ISBN 0883185075.
- A. A. Sokolov, I. M. Ternov, and V. Ch. Zhukovskii, Quantum Mechanics, Imported Pubn., 1986. ISBN 0828529671.
- A. A. Sokolov, I. M. Ternov, and V. Ch. Zhukovskii, A. V. Borisov, Quantum Electrodynamics, Mir Publishing Moscow, 1988 ISBN 5-03-000790-3
Papers
- ^ A. A. Sokolov and I. M. Ternov (1953). Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 25: 698.
- ^ Sokolov, A. A.; I. M. Ternov (1963). "О поляризационных и спиновых эффектах в теории синхротронного излучения [Polarization and spin effects in the theory of synchrotron radiation]" (in Russian). Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 153 (5): 1052–1053.
- ^ A. A. Sokolov and I. M. Ternov (1964). "On Polarization and Spin Effects in Synchrotron Radiation Theory". Sov. Phys. Dokl. 8: 1203. Bibcode 1964SPhD....8.1203S.
Doctoral students
- Igor Ternov
- Dmitry Gal'tsov
- Luis de la Peña
- Boris Lysov
- Vladimir Zhukovskii
Awards
- USSR State Prize (1976) — for prediction and development of the effect of radiative polarization of electrons and positrons in a magnetic field (with Igor Ternov).
| Persondata |
| Name |
Arseny Sokolov |
| Alternative names |
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| Short description |
Russian Physicist |
| Date of birth |
19 March 1910 |
| Place of birth |
Novosibirsk, Russian Empire |
| Date of death |
19 October 1986 |
| Place of death |
Moscow, USSR |