{{Proposed deletion/dated |concern = Possible hoax, sources do not corroborate content. See [http://apollohoax.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=theories&action=print&thread=2695 this] forum post, which says "Search tells me Alexander Popov hasn't been mentioned before today." |timestamp = 20121220093808 }} {{Hoax|article|date=September 2012}} {{Infobox scientist |name = Alexander Ivanovich Popov |image = |image_size = |alt = |caption = |birth_date = 3 September 1943 |birth_place = Zhuravlevka, [[Saratov Oblast]], [[USSR]] |death_date = |death_place = |residence = [[Moscow]] |citizenship = [[Russia]] |nationality = |ethnicity = |fields = [[Physicist]] |workplaces = [[National Research Nuclear University "MEPhI"]] |alma_mater = [[National Research Nuclear University "MEPhI"]] |doctoral_advisor = Evgeny Dmitrievich Procenko |academic_advisors = |doctoral_students = |notable_students = |known_for = Author and co-author of 15 inventions in laser technology |influences = |influenced = |awards = [[Gold medal]] from the [[All-Russia Exhibition Centre|Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy]] (1981)
[[Bronze medal]] from the [[All-Russia Exhibition Centre|Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy]] (1981) (1978) |religion = |signature = |signature_alt = |footnotes = }} '''Alexander Ivanovich Popov''' ({{lang-ru|'''Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Попо́в'''}}; born 3 September 1943) is a [[Soviet]] [[physicist]] and [[inventor]], a laureate of a [[Gold medal]] from the [[All-Russia Exhibition Centre|Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy]] (VDNH), senior [[research associate]], [[doktor nauk|Doctor of Physical-Mathematical Sciences]]. Popov was born in the village of Zhuravlevka, [[Saratov Oblast]], [[Soviet Union|USSR]]. Since 1952, he has lived in [[Moscow]]. Graduated the Faculty of experimental and theoretical physics of the [[National Research Nuclear University "MEPhI"]] in 1966. He was worked in design bureaus, but mostly in the MEPhI and is now considered its veteran. He defended a thesis for [[kandidat nauk|Candidate of Physical-Mathematical Sciences]] entitled "A research of the interaction of the optical emission with the active environment of the gas lasers".[http://libcatalog.mephi.ru/cgi/irbis64r/cgiirbis_64.exe?Z21ID=&I21DBN=DISS&P21DBN=DISS&S21STN=1&S21REF=10&S21FMT=fullwebr&C21COM=S&S21CNR=20&S21P01=0&S21P02=1&S21P03=A=&S21STR=Попов,%20А.%20И. A research of the interaction of the optical emission with the active environment of the gas lasers], a dissertation of the candidate of physical-mathematical sciences, advisor E.D.Procenko, Moscow, MEPhI, 1972, 139 pages {{ru icon}} in the MEPhI in 1973, where in 1984 he defended also his thesis for [[doktor nauk|Doctor of Physical-Mathematical Sciences]] entitled "Laser absorption analysis of molecular gases".[http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/9265/dissert.jpg Diplomas for Candidate and Doctor of Sciences] (702 KB) Popov is the author and co-author of 15 inventions[http://dos.nm.ru/popov/inventions.pdf Authorship certificates] (9.5 MB) {{ru icon}} and over 100 publications[http://dos.nm.ru/popov/publications.pdf List of publications] (3.1 MB) {{ru icon}} in the area of [[laser]]s, [[spectroscopy]], [[Absorption (electromagnetic radiation)|absorption]] analysis, laser analysis of gases and [[optics]]. With his inventions, he repeatedly attended the [[All-Russia Exhibition Centre|Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy]] of the USSR (VDNH) and is a laureate of a bronze (1978) and gold (1981) medals of the Chief Committee of the VDNH.[http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/4623/img0439o.jpg Certificates for achieved successes in the development of the people's economy of the USSR (244 KB)] ==Literature== [http://library.mephi.ru:8085/cgi/irbis64r/cgiirbis_64.exe?Z21ID=&I21DBN=TRUD&P21DBN=TRUD&S21STN=1&S21REF=10&S21FMT=fullw&C21COM=S&S21CNR=20&S21P01=0&S21P02=0&S21P03=K=&S21STR=%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B9-%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%B5%20%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%8B Laser absorption analysis and its application in geology, geophysics and ecology], under the editorship of A.I.Popov, MEPhI, Moscow, ''Energoizdat'', 1982, pages 58. ==References== {{reflist}} {{Persondata | NAME = Popov, Alexander Ivanovich | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH = 3 September 1943 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Zhuravlevka, [[Saratov Oblast]], [[USSR]] | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Popov, Alexander Ivanovich}} {{Russia-physicist-stub}} [[ru:Попов, Александр Иванович (физик)]] {{wikipedia-deleted|TenPoundHammer}}