Anatoly Dorodnitsyn

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Anatoly Alekseyevich Dorodnitsyn (Russian: Анатолий Алексеевич Дородницын) 19 November (per Julian Calendar), 2 December (per Gregorian Calendar), 1910 – 7 June 1994, Moscow) was a Russian mathematician who worked as an engineer in the former Soviet space program.

Dorodnitsyn was a Full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1953), and a professor at the department of physical and mathematical sciences (1949), majoring in geophysics.^[1][2][3]

In same cases (for example, in English version some official blanks in Russia) the following translations were also used: Anatolii instead Anatoly and (or) Dorodnicyn instead Dorodnitsyn.

Biography

Dorodnitsyn was born in the village of Bashino, Kashira County (Tula Governorate), Russian Empire, the son of a village medical doctor, Alexei Petrovich Dorodnitsyn, a graduate of the University of Tartu (now Estonia), and Nina Ivanovna Dorodnitsyna, née Vyshemirskaya, the only daughter of an Orthodox priest. He was the third child in the family, with two older sisters. The family migrated to Ukraine in 1914 and lived in a village of Novaya Basan’, near Kyiv, during World War I and the Russian Civil War. Anatoly studied in a 7-grade school in the nearby village of Berezan’. The family moved to Grozny in North Caucasus, the capital of the Chechen region, in 1925, where Anatoly graduated from high school in 1927.^[4]

In the same year, Dorodnitsyn passed the entry examination at the Novocherkassk Polytechnic Institute, with honors, but was denied enrollment based on his “non-proletarian origin”. He immediately applied to, and was enrolled in, the Grozny Oil Technical School,^[5] which was one of the first higher educational institutions teaching hydrocarbon-related subjects in Russia. The hydrocarbon industry and related educational institutions were growing rapidly at the time. The technical school he studied in was upgraded to “The Grozny Oil Institute” and Dorodnitsyn graduated from it in 1931 with a degree as Oil Production Engineer.^[6]

His first employer was the Leningrad Oil Exploration Institute.^[7] The following year, he joined the Leningrad Main Geophysical Observatory, which is the oldest meteorological institution in Russia.^[8] Both these organizations created their own seismological task force, appointing Dorodnitsyn as their head and dispatching them to the Ural Mountains, Bashkortostan and Turkmenistan to conduct geological researches.^[9]

At that time, Dorodnitsyn realized there was a serious gap in his mathematical education, since only the basics of calсulus were included in the Grozny Oil Institute’s program. He devoted all his evenings after work to study mathematics; this helped radically improve his mathematical skills.

He completed his postgraduate studies at the Leningrad Main Geophysical Observatory from 1936 to 1938 under the supervision of Prof. Ilya Afanasievich Kibel, a member of the scientific school led by academician

In 1940, Dorodnitsyn entered a doctoral program led by academician Nikolai Yevgrafovich Kochin at the Institute of Mechanics of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The topic of his doctoral thesis, “Boundary layer in compressible gas”, turned out to be ground-breaking for both meteorology and aircraft theory. This was of high importance for the aircraft industry’s development during World War II and on the eve of Great Patriotic War.[11]

In 1941 Dorodnitsyn was dispatched to

The main academic works of Dorodnitsyn are devoted to ordinary differential equations, algebra, meteorology, vortex wing theory, boundary layer theory in a compressible gas, supersonic gas dynamics, the numerical method of integral relations, and the small parameter method for Navier–Stokes equations. Dorodnitsyn also contributed a lot to Informatics. Dorodnitsyn achieved the following main scientific results:

• He studied asymptotic behavior of solutions of certain classes of nonlinear differential equations;
• He developed the vortex theory of wings of complex shapes and proposed numerical methods for supersonic asymmetric gas flows;
• He developed a numerical method of integral relations for partial differential equations and numerical methods for Navier–Stokes equations;
• He mathematically described air currents over mountain ranges and created the theory of the boundary layer in a compressible gas.

In higher education

Dorodnitsyn devoted a lot of his time to teaching.^[14]

• He taught as an associate professor at the higher mathematics department at the
  Leningrad Mining Institute
  in 1939–1940;
• He delivered lectures to post-graduate students in TsAGI as of 1941;
• He taught as a professor at the department of theoretical aerodynamics at the MAI in 1944–1946;
• He gave lectures at the faculty of physics and technology of Moscow State University (PhTF MSU) in 1947–1951;
• After PhTF MSU was detached from MSU and became an independent Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) in 1951, Dorodnitsyn headed the departments of aerodynamics (1953–1964), gas dynamics (1964–1967), applied mathematics (1967–1971) and mathematical physics (1971–1994) there.

Managing of scientific programs

Dorodnitsyn’s activities in managing of the Soviet scientific programs were extremely important for the scientific and technological development of USSR.

• Dorodnitsyn was a founding father of the Computing Centre of USSR Academy of Sciences. He served as its director in 1955–1989, its honorary director and scientific director in 1989–1994. This centre was named after him in 2000 and became Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences.
• He was a co-founder of the USSR National Committee for theoretical and applied mechanics in 1956.
• He proposed to create the Department of Informatics in the Russian Academy of Sciences.
• He founded and for many years led as an editor-in-chief the Journal of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Physics.
• He was a co-founder of the International Federation for information processing (
  IFIP) within UNESCO
  in 1960 that initially united 55 countries. He served as IFIP President in 1968–1971.
• He headed and served on a number of commissions and committees on computer technology, control systems and software in the USSR and at the level of
  COMECON
  , which was an analogue of European Economic Community for East-European and socialist countries.

• Order of the Badge of Honour (1943)
• Order of the Red Star (1945)
• Stalin prize II degree (1946) for work on the theory of the boundary layer
• Stalin prize II degree (1947) for design of new wings for high-speed aircraft
• Stalin prize (1951) for research in aerodynamics
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1954)
• Order of Lenin (1956, 1959, 1963, 1970, 1980)
• Hero of Socialist Labor
  (1970)
• N.M. Krylov
  prize of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1972, 1978)
• Order of the October Revolution (1975)
• A.N. Krylov prize of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1977)
• Prize of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1981)
• Lenin prize (1983) for the development and implementation of the ES EVM
• Glushkov prize of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1983)
• Order of Friendship of Peoples (1986)
• Medal of Vladimir Nikolaevich Chelomey

Foreign honors and awards

• Foreign member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1970)
• Order of Friendship (Vietnam), (1982)
• Order of Saints Cyril and Methodius (people's Republic of Bulgaria, 1987)
• Medal of the City of Paris (Silver)
• Medals оf the academies of Sciences of the GDR, Bulgaria and Mongolia

Selected bibliography

Collection of works

After Anatoly Dorodnitsyn’s disease, editorial Board, composed of Alexander Abramov, Oleg Belotserkovskii, E. M. Dobryshman, Yuri Yevtushenko, Yuri Zhuravlev, Boris Pal'tsev, Vladimir Sychev, Leonid Turchak, Yuri Shmyglevskii (resp. ed.) compiled and published in the publishing house CCRAS in 1997 two volumes of selected scientific works of Anatoly Dorodnitsyn.

• Dorodnitsyn A. A. Selected scientific works, Vol. 1. / Ed. "Yuri D. Shmyglevskii". Moscow: EC RAS, 1997. 396 p. issue 1000 PCs.
  ISBN 5-201-14719-4
  . (rus.)
• Dorodnitsyn A. A. Selected scientific works, vol. 2. / ed. "Yu. D. Shmyglevsky". Moscow: EC RAS, 1997. 352 p. issue 1000 PCs.
  ISBN 5-201-14719-4
  . (rus.)

• zbMATH: Dorodnitsyn, Anatoliĭ Alekseevich
• Math-Net.Ru: Dorodnitsyn, Anatolii Alekseevich

Literature about Dorodnitsyn

• Belotserkovsky O. M. 50 years together (Memories of academician A. A. Dorodnitsyn). Subtitle "to the 100th anniversary of his birth" Ed. doctor of physical and mathematical Sciences B. V. Pal'tsev. Moscow:
  CC RAS
  , 2010. Pages 33–43. (rus.)
• Dorodnitsyna V. V., Yevtushenko Yu. G., Shevchenko V. V. Academician A. A. Dorodnitsyn: life as a daring time (to the 105th anniversary of his birth). // Under the General editorship of prof. Sergey Ya. Stepanov. M.: CC RAS, 2015. 466 p. Format 60*90 1/8 (210*298 mm). 300 pieces.
  ISBN 978-5-906693-26-6
  . (rus.)

• Dorodnitsyn transformation

References

External links

in English

• A.A. Dorodnytsyn profile on Russian mathematical portal (Math-Net.Ru) (eng.)
• Biography on portal warheroes.ru (language may be selected)
• Anatoly Alekseevich Dorodnitsyn Sci Biography on Russian Virtual Computer Museum.

in Russian

• Anatoly Dorondnitsyn profile on RAS portal (rus.)
• TsAGI in faces. A.A. Dorodnytsyn // TsAGI memorial pages (rus.)
• acad. A.A. Dorodnytsyn memorial museum on Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre portal (rus.)
• Prof. Pavel Iv. Chuskin. Anatoly Alekseevich Dorodnitsyn (1910—1994) // CCAS of RAS, 1997. (rus.)
• Biography on portal warheroes.ru (language may be selected).