Stanislav Pavlovich Mikheyev (; 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 of
Moscow State University
Moscow State University (MSU), officially M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University,. is a public university, public research university in Moscow, Russia. The university includes 15 research institutes, 43 faculties, more than 300 departments, a ...
in 1965. Then he became a researcher at
Lebedev Physical Institute. Since 1970 he was a researcher at the
Institute for Nuclear Research of the
USSR Academy of Sciences (
Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such ...
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
Baikal Neutrino Telescope and the
T2K experiment.
Awards
Mikheyev was awarded the
Bruno Pontecorvo Prize (2006, jointly with Smirnov and
Wolfenstein) and the
Sakurai Prize (2008, jointly with Smirnov).
Physical Society
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See also
* List of theoretical physicists
References
External links
papers
in the INSPIRE-HEP
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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
Russian theoretical physicists
J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics recipients
Russian scientists