- Anatoly Vlasov
Infobox_Scientist
name = Anatoly Vlasov
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birth_date = birth date|1908|8|20|df=y
birth_place =Balashov ,Russian Empire
death_date = death date and age|1975|12|22|1908|8|20
death_place =Moscow ,Russia
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citizenship = flag|Russian Empire
flag|USSR
nationality =Russia
ethnicity = Russian
field =Physicist
work_institution =Moscow State University
alma_mater =Moscow State University
doctoral_advisor =Igor Tamm
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known_for = development of plasma physics,Vlasov equation
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prizes =Lenin Prize (1970)
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footnotes =Anatoly Alexandrovich Vlasov ( _ru. Анатолий Александрович Власов; OldStyleDate|20 August|1908|7 August
Balashov ,Saratov Oblast ,Russia -22 December 1975 Moscow ) was aRussia n theoretical physicist prominent in the fields ofstatistical mechanics , kinetics, and especially inplasma physics .Biography
He graduated from
Moscow State University in 1931 and worked there all his life, collaborating with NobelistsPyotr Kapitsa ,Lev Landau and others. He became a full Professor at Moscow State University in 1944 and head of the theoretical physics department in Faculty of Physics at Moscow State University (1945-1953).Research
His main works are in
optics ,plasma physics , physics of crystals, theory ofgravitation ,statistical physics .Optics
In optics he analyzed, partially jointly with
Vasily Fursov , spectral line broadening in gases at large densities (1936-1938). A new suggestion in these works was to use long range collective interactions between atoms for a correct description of spectra line broading at large densities.Plasma physics
Vlasov became world famous for his work on plasma physics [cite journal|author=A. A. Vlasov|title=On Vibration Properties of Electron Gas|journal=J. Exp. Theor. Phys.|volume=8 (3)|pages=291|year=1938|url= http://ufn.ru/ru/articles/1967/11/f/] (1938) (see also [cite journal|author=A. A. Vlasov|title=The Vibrational Properties of an Electron Gas|journal=Sov. Phys. Usp.|volume=10|pages=721|year=1968|url= http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0038-5670/10/6/R01] ). He showed that Boltzmann equation is not suitable for a description of plasma dynamics due to the existence in plasma of long range collective forces. Instead, a system of equations known now as
Vlasov equation was suggested for the correct description to take into account the long range collective forces through a self-consistent field. TheVlasov equation , which is related to theLiouville equation and the collisionlessBoltzmann equation , is fundamental to plasma physics.elected publications
Books
*A. A. Vlasov, Many-Particle Theory and Its Application to Plasma, Gordon and Breach, 1961.
Papers
Awards
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Lenin Prize (1970).References
* [http://www.oval.ru/enc/14111.html Anatoly Vlasov] in the
Great Soviet Encyclopedia ru icon
* [http://vgd105.valuehost.ru/V/vlasov.htm All-Russia Genealogical Tree] ru icon
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