Rem Ivanovich Soloukhin (, 19 November 1930 – 6 January 1988) was a

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scientist, specializing in

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and

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. Along with Antoni K. Oppenheim (Berkeley) and Numa Manson (Paris), he founded the International Committee on Gasdynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems (ICDERS) in 1967.

Biography

Rem Soloukhin was born in a teachers' family in Gus-Khrustalny,

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in 1930. He graduated from Faculty of Physics of

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in 1953Rem Soloukhin in the virtual museum of Yanenko N.
/ref> and became PhD in 1957. In 1959, Soloukhin, together with Mikhail Lavrentiev, moved to work in

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in Akademgorodok, where he developed a scientific direction at the

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, which had already begun at the Krzhizhanovsky Energy Institute. In addition, he takes an active part in the creation of the

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(NSU) and becomes the first dean of the Faculty of Physics, and then vice-rector for scientific and educational work.Институт тепло- и массообмена имени А.В. Лыкова НАН Беларуси.
/ref> In 1967, Soloukhin together with Antoni K. Oppenheim and Manson Numa established the International Committee on Gasdynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems. He taught at

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(1958–1959), then became a professor at Novosibirsk State University (1965), the first dean of Faculty of Physics and vice-chancellor (1962–1967). From 1971 to 1976 he was director of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ITAM) of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Since 1976, he lived and worked in

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. From 1976 to 1987 he was director of the A. V. Lykov Institute of Heat and Mass Transfer of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR and head of the Department of Thermal Physics at BSU named after V. I. Lenin. Rem Soloukhin explored physics of combustion, explosion, and shock waves. Also, he was interested in gas dynamics and became the author of more than 400 scientific works. Soloukhin was awarded the

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(1980),

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(1967), and

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(1961, 1975). In his memory, the grants for students of

and the international award for the best experimental work of Soloukhin's name were established.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Soloukhin, Rem 1930 births 1988 deaths Soviet physicists Moscow State University alumni Academic staff of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Academic staff of Novosibirsk State University Scientists from Novosibirsk People from Gus-Khrustalny