Published “Diagram technique for nonequilibrium processes” in Selected Papers of Leonid V Keldysh — cited 142 times.
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Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh was a Soviet mathematician who worked as an engineer in the Soviet space program.
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science · Soviet mathematician and engineer (1911–1978) · mathematician · engineer · university teacher · politician · physicist · also Mstislav Keldysh, Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh, Keldysh
Born 28 January 1911 · Died 24 June 1978 · Q246497
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Published “Diagram technique for nonequilibrium processes” in Selected Papers of Leonid V Keldysh — cited 142 times.
Published “Coherent photonic coupling of semiconductor quantum dots” in Optics Letters — cited 47 times.
Published “Strong coupling in a single quantum dot–semiconductor microcavity system” in Nature — cited 1,836 times.
Published “Optics of excitonic molecules in semiconductors and semiconductor microstructures” in Physics Reports — cited 105 times.
Published “Excitons in Semiconductor–Dielectric Nanostructures” in physica status solidi (a) — cited 101 times.
Published “<i>Quantum Theory of the Optical and Electronic Properties of Semiconductors</i>” in Physics Today — cited 72 times.
Published “Electromagnetic Response of Material Media” — cited 72 times.
Published “The electron-hole liquid in semiconductors” in Contemporary Physics — cited 104 times.
Died 1978-06-24.
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It is named after him to become the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics
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Published “Venus exploration with the Venera 9 and Venera 10 spacecraft” in Icarus — cited 91 times.
Awarded Order of Sukhbaatar (1975).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1975).
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Won Lomonosov Gold Medal (1975).
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Won Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1975).
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By Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Chernykh, is named in his honor
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Won Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Mongolian People's Revolution" (1972).
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Won "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal (1971).
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Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1971).
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Awarded Order of Georgi Dimitrov (1971).
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Awarded Hero of Socialist Labour (1971).
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Published “ON THE COMPLETENESS OF THE EIGENFUNCTIONS OF SOME CLASSES OF NON-SELFADJOINT LINEAR OPERATORS” in Russian Mathematical Surveys — cited 142 times.
Awarded Order of Bernardo O'Higgins (1969).
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Awarded Order of Cyril and Methodius (1969).
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1968).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1967).
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This department became an independent organization as the Institute of Applied Mathematics
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Won Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1965).
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Was elected a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
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Won "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal (1961).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1961).
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Awarded Hero of Socialist Labour (1961).
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Keldysh was elected President of the Academy of Sciences and kept this position for 14 years
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Received a second Hеrо of Socialist Labour award for his contribution to Yuri Gagarin's flight into space, the first person to orbit the Earth
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Career landmark: president of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1961–1975).
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Awarded Lenin Prize (1957).
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Awarded Hero of Socialist Labour (1956).
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Won "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal (1956).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1956).
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Keldysh was appointed chairman of the Satellite Committee at the Academy of Science
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1954).
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Keldysh, Sergei Korolev and Mikhail Tikhonravov submitted a letter to the Soviet Government proposing development of an artificial satellite to orbit the Earth
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Awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1953).
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Became a member of the Communist Party
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Awarded Stalin Prize, 2nd degree (1946).
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For his works on aircraft auto-oscillations
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Awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1945).
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Won Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1945).
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Won Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow" (1945).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1945).
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Awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1943).
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Became a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union
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Also became a full member of the Academy and the Director of NII-1 (Research Institute number 1) of the Department of the Aviation Industry
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Awarded Stalin Prize, 2nd degree (1942).
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Another of Keldysh's brothers, Alexander, was arrested as a French spy
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Keldysh became Doctor of Science with his dissertation entitled Complex Variable and Harmonic Functions Representation by Polynomial Series, and was appointed a Professor of Moscow State University
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Studied at Steklov Institute of Mathematics (1934–1937).
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And executed in 1937 on suspicion of being a German spy
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Keldysh's mother was arrested but was released after a few weeks
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Studied at Lomonosov Moscow State University (1927–1931).
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Studied at MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics (1927–1931).
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Born 1911-01-28.
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His grandfather, Mikhail Fomich Keldysh (1839–1920), was a military physician, who retired with the military rank of General.
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