Aleksandr Mikhailovich Baldin (Russian: Александр Михайлович Балдин) (February 26, 1926, Moscow – April 29, 2001) was a Soviet and Russian

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...

, expert in the field of physics of elementary particles and high energy physics. After finishing the railway technical school, he studied in the Moscow Institute of Engineers and Transport, followed by a DSc program in

Moscow Engineering Physics Institute National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) () is a public university, public technical university in Moscow, Russia. It was founded in 1942 as the Moscow Mechanical Institute of Munitions, but was soon renam ...

completing in 1949, when he became a professor in

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. In 1968, he was named the director of Laboratory of High Energy Physics in the

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(ОИЯИ) in Dubna, where the Soviet nuclear weapons were developed. He was elected a member of

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and a faculty of

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. He was the co-designer of the project of synchrophasotron ОИЯИ (1949). He received the

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(1988).

Biography

He graduated from the railway technical school, and then entered to the

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. In 1946, as an excellent student, he was invited to continue his studies at the

(MEPI). After graduation in 1949, he was sent to the

of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (PIAS), where he later defended his PhD and became a professor. In 1952, he became a master of sports in

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and the champion of the USSR. He was chairman of the Council on Electromagnetic Interactions of the

, a member of the Bureau of the Nuclear Physics Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, chief editor of the journal Elementary Particles and Atomic Nuclei (EPAN) and “ Letters to EPAN”, the member of the editorial boards of many scientific publications. He organized several international seminar on High Energy Physics (since 1969).

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1926 births 2001 deaths Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Moscow Engineering Physics Institute alumni Recipients of the Lenin Prize {{Russia-physicist-stub Officers of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Recipients of the USSR State Prize Soviet physicists Burials at Vagankovo Cemetery