Sergey M. Bezrukov is a Russian born
biophysicist
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notable for his work on
ion channels
Ion channels are pore-forming membrane proteins that allow ions to pass through the channel pore. Their functions include establishing a resting membrane potential, shaping action potentials and other electrical signals by gating the flow of i ...
and
stochastic resonance
Stochastic resonance (SR) is a phenomenon in which a signal that is normally too weak to be detected by a sensor, can be boosted by adding white noise to the signal, which contains a wide spectrum of frequencies. The frequencies in the white no ...
.
Education
He received his MS in
Electronics
The field of electronics is a branch of physics and electrical engineering that deals with the emission, behaviour and effects of electrons using electronic devices. Electronics uses active devices to control electron flow by amplification ...
and
Theoretical Physics
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from
Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, abbreviated as SPbPU (also, formerly "Saint Petersburg State Technical University", abbreviated as SPbSTU), is a Russian technical university located in Saint Petersburg. Other former names i ...
, 1973; and he obtained his PhD under
Giliary Moiseevich Drabkin in
Physics
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and
Mathematics from
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 ...
,
Russia
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, 1981.
Career
During 1981-87, he was a research scientist, Leningrad Nuclear Physics Institute, Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics; in 1987-90 a Senior Research Scientist, Leningrad Nuclear Physics Institute, Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics; in 1990-92 he was a Visiting Research Associate,
University of Maryland, College Park
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and Special Volunteer,
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government
The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U ...
, LBM, NIDDK; in 1992-98 he was visiting scientist, National Institutes of Health, LSB, DCRT and LPSB, NICHD; in 1998-02 he was an Investigator, Head of Unit, National Institutes of Health, LPSB, NICHD. He took up his present position in 2002, as Section Chief in the Laboratory of Physical and Structural Biology, National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda, Maryland
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.
Honors
Bezrukov was elected Member of Executive Council of the Division of Biological Physics of the
American Physical Society in 2002.
See also
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Lipid membranes
The lipid bilayer (or phospholipid bilayer) is a thin polar membrane made of two layers of lipid molecules. These membranes are flat sheets that form a continuous barrier around all cells. The cell membranes of almost all organisms and many vi ...
*
Noise-based logic Noise-based logic (NBL) is a class of multivalued logic, multivalued deterministic logic schemes, developed in the twenty-first century, where the logic values and bits are represented by different realizations of a stochastic process. The concept o ...
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SEPTIC bacterium detection/identification method
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''Quantum Aspects of Life'' (book)
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''Stochastic Resonance'' (book)
External links
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Bezrukov's math genealogyBezrukov at Scientific Commons
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Moscow State University alumni
Russian emigrants to the United States
Russian physicists
Soviet physicists
20th-century American physicists
American nuclear physicists
Russian nuclear physicists
Soviet nuclear physicists
Probability theorists
Fellows of the American Physical Society