Arseny Sokolov

Arseny Alexandrovich Sokolov (Russian Арсений Александрович Соколов; born March 19, 1910 in Novosibirsk, † October 19, 1986 in Moscow) was a Soviet theoretical physicist.

Sokolow, the son of a teacher, studied from 1927 at the Tomsk State University with the degree in 1931 and was there received his doctorate in 1934 at Pyotr Tartakowski (Candidate title, title of the thesis: The motion of the electrons in the crystal lattice ). He was then assistant and since 1935 assistant professor at the University of Tomsk. In 1939 he moved to Sverdlovsk, where he taught at the Pedagogical Institute and the University as a professor. In 1942 he completed his habilitation (Russian PhD ) at the Joffe Institute, which was then evacuated from Leningrad to Kazan. He was from 1945 professor at the Moscow State University ( on the initiative of Dmitry Shostakovich Ivanenko and supported by Kurchatov ), where he was from 1948 to 1954 Dean of the Physics Faculty ( under his leadership, the new buildings were built in the Lenin Hills ) and 1966 to 1982 Head of the Department of Theoretical Physics. He was also there head of the Communist Party in the Physics Department and secretary of the Communist Party.

He dealt with quantum field theory and elementary particle physics, in which he already 1930s closely with Ivanenko worked on questions of elementary particle theory and published in international journals with Ivanenko he developed the theory of synchrotron accelerators. He worked a lot with Ivanenko and his PhD Igor Mikhailovich Ternow. With Ternow he discovered various relativistic effects at accelerators, such as the self- polarization of electrons through synchrotron radiation in strong magnetic fields ( Sokolov - Ternov effect). The effect was first observed in 1971 at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk. He also said 1953 Ternov quantum fluctuations of electron orbits in accelerators before.

In 1976 he was awarded the USSR State Prize and in 1950 he was awarded the Stalin Prize. In 1971 he was Honoured Scientist of the USSR.

Writings

• Ternov with Synchrotron Radiation, Elsevier 1969
• With Ternov Synchrotron Radiation from relativistic electrons, American Institute of Physics 1986
• With Ternov, V. Ch Zhukovskii Quantum Mechanics, Imported Publ 1986
• With Ternov, Zhukovskii, AV Borisov Quantum Electrodynamics, Mir Pub. , Moscow 1988
• Elementary, Scientific paperbacks, Akademie Verlag 1969
• With Ternow, Yuri Mikhailovich Loskutov quantum mechanics, Berlin, Akademie Verlag 1964
• DD Ivanenko Classical Field Theory, Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1953 ( Russian original: Moscow, Leningrad, 1949)
• Quantum electrodynamics, Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1957