Nikolai Borisovich Delone

Nikolai Borisovich Delone (22 May 1926 – 11 September 2008), was a Soviet physicist born in Leningrad, USSR (now Saint Petersburg, Russia).^[1]

Life

Delone was born in Leningrad on 22 May 1922. He is the son of Boris Delone, a mathematician.^[1] He graduated from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in 1951, and obtained his Ph.D at the Lebedev Physical Institute in the late 1950s.^[1]

Delone is recognized for the first observations of multiphoton ionization, in 1965.^[1][2] Delone, along with Maxim Ammosov and Vladimir P. Krainov, developed the ADK formula, relating tunneling ionization in laser fields.^[1] He was also a lecturer at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.^[1] After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he travelled abroad and worked on international collaborations on multiphoton physics.^[1]

Publications

Delone published over 200 scientific papers, a four-book series on the physics of strong laser fields and on multiphoton physics, and a series of high-school level Russian textbooks.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} Vladimir P. Krainov, Gérard Mainfray, See Leang Chin, Joseph H. Eberly, Pierre Agostini, Mikhail V. Federov (2009). "Obituaries: Nikolai Borisovich Delone". Physics Today 62 (5): 67. Bibcode 2009PhT....62e..67K. doi:10.1063/1.3141949. 
2. ^ G.S. Voronov, G.A. Delone, N.B. Delone, and O.V. Kudrevatova (1965). "Multiphoton Ionization of the Hydrogen Molecule in the Strong Electric Field of Ruby Laser Emission". Zh. Eksperim. i Teor. Fiz. Pis'ma v Redaktsiyu 2: 377. Bibcode 1965ZhPmR...2..377V.  (Russian)
   

   English translation in JETP Letters 2: 237. 1965. Bibcode 1965JETPL...2..237V. 

External links

• Death notice in Physics Today
• Various books by N.B. Delone at OpenLibrary

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Name	Delone, Nikolai Borisovich
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Date of birth	22 May 1926
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Date of death	11 September 2008
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