Vladimir Fortov
Vladimir Jewgenjewitsch Fortov (Russian Владимир Евгеньевич Фортов, English transcription Vladimir Evgenievitch Fortov; born January 23, 1946 in Noginsk in the Moscow Oblast ) is a Russian physicist.
Fortov studied physics in 1962 from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology ( MIPT ) with the completion in 1968 and a doctorate in plasma physics 1971. Invited by Semyonov he then went into the group of Lew Altschuler and Seldowitsch. In 1976, he earned a second doctorate there ( strongly coupled by the Russian Academy of Sciences, Physics plasma produced by strong shock waves ) and in 1978 became professor of physics and chemistry at the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In 1986 he became head of the Laboratory for High Temperatures of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and in 1991 a professor of high-energy physics at MIPT. Since 1992 he has been director of the Institute for High Energy densities of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1998 he became head of the Electrical Power Engineering of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
He examined the production and properties of dense plasmas and the physics and chemistry of extreme states, for example, generated with the help of shock waves and detonation waves.
He was also involved in various space projects such as the Vega mission to Halley 's Comet and the study of the impact of Shoemaker- Levy 9 on Jupiter and experiments on dusty plasma.
1996 to 1998 he was Minister of Science and Technology in Russia and also deputy prime minister.
In 2002 he received the Max Planck Research Award and the 1999 Bridgman Award (lecture: Intense Shock Waves and Extreme States of plasma ) and the 2003 Hannes Alfvén - price. For 2013, the Global Energy International Prize was awarded.
He is a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering ( 2002) and the Royal Academy of Engineering ( 2003) and member of the European Academy of Sciences ( 1998). He is also a member of the International Academy of Astronautics ( 2000). He became vice president of the Russian Academy of Sciences, whose corresponding member he he was in 1987 and a full member in 1991 1996. He held until 2001 this office. In 2013 he was elected president of the Academy of Sciences. However, his choice must still be confirmed by President Vladimir Putin.
He received the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1986 ), the State Prize of the USSR ( 1988) and the Russian Federation (1997 ), the Federal Cross of Merit, and he is a member of the Legion of Honour.
He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Frankfurt and the University of Rostock. Since 2000 he is member of the Max Planck Society since 2001 and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
He was deputy head of the National Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO Affairs, 2005.