Evgeny Velikhov

[1] His scientific interests included plasma physics, lasers, controlled nuclear fusion, power engineering, and magnetohydrodynamics (high-power pulsed MHD generators).From 1971 to 1978, he was the director of the Magnetic Laboratory (later known as the TRINITY State Scientific Center), a branch of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in 1956, and subdivision of Kurchatov Institute since 1961, at Troitsk, Moscow Oblast.The next year, he was appointed the first dean of the Faculty of Physics For Energy (FPFE), a R&D department of fusion energy specialized in plasma and high pressure physics, quantum optics, laser, and space technologies.In 1988, he was named director of Kurchatov Institute and chairman of the international programme (Russia, United States, European Union and Japan) for the creation of the thermonuclear experimental tokamak ITER, and has been its president from 1992 until the present.[4] Evgeny Velikhov was well known in the world scientific and engineering community for his diverse activities, for which he has received several honors and awards, among which:
MoscowRussian SFSRRussiaSoviet UnionM.V. Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityHero of Socialist LabourLenin PrizeState Prize of the Russian FederationGlobal Energy PrizeOrders of LeninOrder of Merit for the FatherlandOrder of CourageOrder of the Red Banner of LabourNuclear physicsKurchatov InstituteRussian Academy of SciencesSoviet Academy of SciencesMoscow Institute of Physics and TechnologyPublic Chamber of RussiaAlexander ProkhorovRussianplasma physicslaserscontrolled nuclear fusionpower engineeringmagnetohydrodynamicshigh-power pulsedMHD generatorsscientific publicationsIgor KurchatovCivic Chamber of the Russian FederationAcademy of Sciences of the Soviet Unioninstabilitiesmagnetorotational instabilityelectrothermal instabilitythesisDoctor of Sciencephysicsmathematicsatomic physicsMoscow State UniversityCommunist PartyTRINITYTroitsk, Moscow OblastdepartmentMikhail GorbachevChernobyl DisasterEuropean Uniontokamakjoint-stock companyGazpromRELCOMNational Academy of EngineeringAmerican Physical SocietySzilardHero of Labour of the Russian FederationOrder "For Merit to the Fatherland"Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering SciencesIoffe InstituteSaint PetersburgHonoris CausaUniversity of Notre DameWilliam Howard Taft UniversityUniversity of LondonHonorary CitizenPlovdivOrder of MeritOrder of the Rising SunSoviet Physics JETPBibcode