Georgy Zatsepin
Georgy Timofeyevich Zatsepin (Russian: Гео́ргий Тимофе́евич Заце́пин; 28 May [O.S. 15 May] 1917 – 8 March 2010) was a Soviet and Russian astrophysicist known for his works in cosmic ray physics and neutrino astrophysics.
Biography
He was born in
In the 1960s Zatsepin predicted Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin limit. In the same period he begin research of muons and neutrinos laying foundations of neutrino astronomy and neutrino astrophysics. At the neutrino laboratory created by him in Lebedev Physical Institute methods of solar neutrino detection were developed. He became Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in 1968 and Full Member in 1981. In 1982 Zatsepin was awarded Lenin Prize for creating Station of Cosmic Rays of the Yakut Scientific-Research Base of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. For creating the Baksan Neutrino Observatory, and conducting experiments there he was awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 1998.
Zatsepin was also awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour in 1975 and 1981, Order of the October Revolution in 1987. Until 2006 was the chairman of the Cosmic Rays and Space Physics Chair of the MSU Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics.
He died in Moscow on 8 March 2010, aged 92.
Sources
References
- ^ Зацепин Георгий Тимофеевич in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969–1978 (in Russian)
Cagegory:21st-century Russian physicists