Igor Ternov

Igor Mikhailovich Ternow (Russian Игорь Михайлович Тернов; * November 11, 1921, † April 12, 1996 in Moscow) was a Soviet theoretical physicist.

Life

Ternow studied physics at the Moscow State University with the degree in 1951. He was a student of Arseny Alexandrovich Sokolov and in 1962 professor at the Moscow State University. He was there Vice Rector (1969 and 1973-1978 ), Head of quantum theory and theoretical physics and he was party secretary of the Communist Party in the physics faculty.

He dealt in particular with the theory of synchrotron radiation, for example, in accelerators and various quantum mechanical effects of charged particles in external fields, such as the self- polarization of electrons in strong magnetic fields via synchrotron radiation ( Sokolov - Ternov effect) and quantum effects in the electron orbits in synchrotron accelerators. He has worked closely with Sokolow.

In 1976 he was awarded the State Prize of the USSR with Sokolow.

Writings

• AA Sokolov Synchrotron Radiation, Elsevier 1969
• With Sokolov Synchrotron Radiation from relativistic electrons, American Institute of Physics 1986
• With Sokolov, V. Ch Zhukovskii Quantum Mechanics, Imported Publ 1986
• With Sokolov, Zhukovskii, AV Borisov Quantum Electrodynamics, Mir Pub. , Moscow 1988