Stanislav Pavlovich Mikheyev (russian: Станисла́в Па́влович Михе́ев; 1940 – 23 April 2011) was a Russian physicist known for the discovery of the
MSW effect.
Education and research
Stanislav Mikheyev graduated from
Faculty of Physics
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of
Moscow State University
M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...
in 1965. Then he became a researcher at
Lebedev Physical Institute
The Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LPI RAS or just LPI) (in russian: Физи́ческий институ́т имени П.Н.Ле́бедева Российской академии наук (ФИАН)), situated ...
. Since 1970 he was a researcher at the
Institute for Nuclear Research
Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INR RAS, russian: Институт ядерных исследований) is a Russian scientific research center "for further development of the experimental base and fundament ...
of the
USSR Academy of Sciences
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(
Russian Academy of Sciences
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since 1991), where he earned his Ph.D. in physics in 1983.
He worked on
Baksan Underground Scintillator Telescope for a long time. He has been the leader of two experiments carried out on Baksan Telescope: observation of upward-going muons and searches for superheavy magnetic monopoles.
In 1985 Stanislav Mikheyev and
Alexei Smirnov considered the propagation of oscillating neutrinos in matter with varying density and suggested an explanation for the solar neutrino problem (the
MSW effect). From 1991 to 1998 Mikheyev worked on the
MACRO detector. His activities were also related to the
Baksan Neutrino Observatory
The Baksan Neutrino Observatory (BNO; Baksan is sometimes spelled Baxan) is a scientific laboratory of INR RAS located in the Baksan River gorge in the Caucasus mountains in Russia. Cleared for building in 1967, it started operations in 1977, bec ...
, the
Baikal Neutrino Telescope
The Baikal Deep Underwater Neutrino Telescope (BDUNT) (russian: Байкальский подводный нейтринный телескоп) is a neutrino detector conducting research below the surface of Lake Baikal (Russia) since 2003. The ...
and the
T2K experiment T2K (" Tokai to Kamioka") is a particle physics experiment studying the oscillations of the accelerator neutrinos. The experiment is conducted in Japan by the international cooperation of about 500 physicists and engineers with over 60 research i ...
.
Awards
Mikheyev was awarded the
Bruno Pontecorvo Prize (2006, jointly with Smirnov and
Wolfenstein) and the
Sakurai Prize
The J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, is presented by the American Physical Society at its annual April Meeting, and honors outstanding achievement in particle physics theory. The prize consists of a monetary award ($10,000 U ...
(2008, jointly with Smirnov).
Physical Society
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See also
* List of theoretical physicists
References
External links
papers
in the INSPIRE-HEP database
Stanislav Pavlovich Mikheev
(in Russian)
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Soviet physicists
20th-century Russian physicists
Neutrino physicists
Moscow State University alumni
2011 deaths
1940 births
Theoretical physicists
J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics recipients