D.A.Varshalovich

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Curriculum Vitae of Dmitry Alexandrovich Varshalovich

Personal Data
Date of birth: August 14, 1934
Place of birth: Leningrad (USSR) (at present St.Petersburg, Russia)
Citizenship: Russia
Spouse: Lyudmila Stepanovna
Education
In 1957 graduated from the Leningrad State University [presently St.Petersburg State University] (Faculty of Physics).
1968, Doctorate degree in physics and mathematics.
Employment
Since 1957, at the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences (as from 1991, Russian Academy of Sciences);
since 1979, Professor of the Cosmic Research Chair (at present, head of this Chair) at the St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University;
since 1994, corresponding member and since 2000, full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences;
head of the Chair of Astrophysics at the Academic Physico-Technological University of the Russian Academy of Sciences;
Chief Research Scientist of the Department of Theoretical Astrophysics and Chair of the Council on Astrophysics and Space Research at the Ioffe Institute.
Scientific research
- Astrophysics
- Cosmology
- Theoretical spectroscopy
Author or co-author of more than 200 scientific publications.
Co-author of monograph: Quantum Theory of Angular Momentum (Nauka, Moscow, 1975; World Scientific, Singapore, 1988).
Current research: Spectroscopy of Quasars and Cosmology.
Awards
- A.A. Belopolsky Prize, USSR Academy of Sciences (1990);
- Main Prize, International Academic Publishers Nauka (1997);
- A.F. Ioffe Prize, St. Petersburg Scientific Centre and Municipal Government (2000)
- V.A. Fock Prize, Russian Academy of Sciences (2001)
- Main Prize, International Academic Publishers Nauka (2006);
- State Prize of the Russian Federation (2008)
- Order of Friendship (2011)
Memberships
- International Astronomical Union
- International Union of Pure and Applied Sciences
- United Physical Society of the Russian Federation

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