Mikhail Golant
Mikhail Borisovich Golant | |
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Born | backward-wave tubes (BWTs) | 3 February 1923
Awards | |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Engineering |
Institutions | NPO Istok |
Mikhail Borisovich Golant (
Biography
Mikhail Golant was born to well-educated parents in
Mikhail Golant began to attend the
Golant returned to the Moscow Power Engineering Institute following his demobilization in April 1946 and graduated with distinction in 1951.[2]
Golant's research teams developed a novel approach to designing
In an obituary summarizing the highlights of Golant's career, the Nobel Prize winner Alexander Prokhorov and E. M. Dianov, Academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences, wrote:
The contribution of Golant, an outstanding specialist and engineer, to the development of contemporary science is difficult to overestimate. Along with significant achievements in electronic science and technology, his name is associated with a new age in the physics of millimeter and submillimeter waves. . . . The development of BWTs, which still remain at the leading edge of technology by a number of their parameters, can, without exaggeration, be thought of as one of the greatest advances in world electronics. This breakthrough made it possible to perform unique microwave experiments in radio physics, biology, and medicine and also gave rise to the evolution of a new field in experimental physics – millimeter- and submillimeter-wave BWT spectroscopy.
Galant always defended his scientific ideas to the end. The peak of his activity fell at the onset of semiconductor electronics and laser physics. At that time, experimentation with low-power vacuum tubes appeared to be out of date. It was becoming clear that multiwatt-power vacuum tubes would be ousted by semiconductor devices. However, BWTs designed by Golant still remain a basic tool for physical research in the millimeter- and submillimeter-wave ranges.
The same is true for biophysical investigations into the effect of low-intensity microwaves on living organisms. He directed these investigations and took active part in them by himself. Results obtained do not fit today's ideas and concepts but will undoubtedly revolutionize our knowledge about information processing and transfer in the cells of living organisms.[3]
He died on 7 February 2001.[3]
Honors and awards
Military
- Order of the Red Star (twice)[2]
- Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad"[2]
- Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"[2]
- Medal "For the Victory over Japan"[2]
Civilian
References
- ^ Devyatkov ND, Golant MB, Betsky OV. Brief information for physicians about the physical characteristics of the processes occurring in the body under MM-wave therapy performed by installations "Jav-1", and the associated effects on the body of electromagnetic millimeter waves. (in Russian)
- ^ a b c d e f g h Alexeyenko, A., V. Myakinkov, A. Balyko, et al. (11 February 2011). "Vse sily - sluzheniyu nauke". Archived 2012-04-25 at the Wayback Machine Klyuch. Retrieved 6 November 2011. (in Russian)
- ^ SpringerLink. Retrieved 6 November 2011.