Vladimir E. Fortov
Former Minister of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation
Vladimir Yevgenyevich Fortov was a Russian physicist and politician who served as director of the Joint Institute for High Temperatures and as president of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His research was in thermal physics, shock waves and... Wikipedia
Born: January 23, 1946, Noginsk, Russia
Died: November 29, 2020 (age 74 years), Moscow, Russia
Academic advisors: Yakov Zeldovich, Nikolay Semyonov, and Ievlev, V. M.
Awards: Global Energy Prize
Nominations: Global Energy Prize
Previous office: Minister of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation (1996–1998)
Books
Extreme States of Matter: High Energy Density Physics
2015
Extreme States of Matter: On Earth and in the Cosmos
2011
Complex and Dusty Plasmas: From Laboratory to Space
2009
Physics of Strongly Coupled Plasma
2006
High-Pressure Shock Compression of Solids VII: Shock Waves and Extreme States of Matter
2004
Physics of nonideal plasma
1990
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