Nikolay Pushkov

Nikolai Vasilyevich Puschkow (Russian Николай Васильевич Пушков; born May 17, 1903 in Druschno, Rajon Dmitrovsk in Oryol, † January 29, 1981 in Troitsk, Moscow Oblast ) was a Soviet geophysicist and founder of IZMIRAN (Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and dissemination of radio waves named after Puschkow northwest of the Russian Academy of Sciences) in Troitsk.

Life

Nikolai Puschkow studied at the Moscow State University and at the Hydrometeorological Institute in Moscow. From 1931 on, he conducted research Geophysical main observatory of the Hydrometeorological Service of the USSR. From 1934 to 1937 he worked in the magnetic observatory Pavlovsk (Saint Petersburg ). In 1937 he was appointed director of the Observatory, and in 1940 director of the newly founded IZMIRAN, which he remained until 1969.

In 1960 he was awarded the Lenin Prize for the study of the Van Allen belts and magnetic field of the earth, together with Sergei Wernow, Alexander Tschudakow, Shmaya Dolginow.

• Geophysicists
• Physicist ( 20th century)
• Russian
• Born in 1903
• Died in 1981
• Man