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Vsevolod Gantmakher

Vsevolod Gantmakher is a physics topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Vsevolod Gantmakher rather than just read about it. In short: Vsevolod Feliksovich Gantmakher (October 8, 1935 – March 5, 2015; Russian: Всеволод Феликсович Гантмахер), was a prominent Russian experimental physicist of Jewish origin, was born in Moscow as son of Felix Gantmacher, a prominent mathematician. He was a full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and is known for his fundamental contributions to condensed matter physics especially for the Gantmakher effect and G…

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Reference excerpt

Vsevolod Feliksovich Gantmakher (October 8, 1935 – March 5, 2015; Russian: Всеволод Феликсович Гантмахер), was a prominent Russian experimental physicist of Jewish origin, was born in Moscow as son of Felix Gantmacher, a prominent mathematician. He was a full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and is known for his fundamental contributions to condensed matter physics especially for the Gantmakher effect and Gantmakher–Kaner oscillations.

Career Gantmakher graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MFTI) in 1960 and was accepted for graduate study to Kapitza's Institute for Physical Problems in Moscow where he worked under Yuri Sharvin on high frequency electron properties of metals exploring exotic shapes of Fermi surfaces of metals. There Gantmakher earned his Candidate and Doctor of Sciences degrees for the discovery of both the Gantmakher effect and the Gantmakher–Kaner oscillations. After completing his work at the Kapitza' Institute, Gantmakher moved to the newly established Institute of Solid State Physics in Chernogolovka (an Academic campus near Moscow) which became the stage for his long and productive career. There he established a laboratory that explored frontiers of electron transport in solids covering topics as diverse as high-frequency properties of normal metals, transverse focusing, hot carriers, electron relaxation in semiconductors, and superconductivity including the localization of Cooper pairs. Gantmakher supervised a large group of young experimenters beginning from their last years as students of MFTI until the time they grew up into independent researchers. Inside his Institute of Solid State Physics he played a leading role in promoting the rules of scientific ethics. He also played an active role in establishing the system of scientific grants in post-Soviet Russia. Since 1990 Gantmakher served as the Editor-in-Chief of JETP Letters, the flagship of Russian physics. Among his awards are a Young Researcher Prize of the Government of USSR and the Kapitza Golden Medal, one of the highest awards of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Bibliography V. F. Gantmakher, A Method of Measuring the Momentum of Electrons in Metals, Sov. Phys. - JETP, 15, 982 (1962). V. F. Gantmakher and E. A. Kaner, Radio-Frequency Size Effect in a Magnetic Field Perpendicular to the Surface of a Metal, Sov. Phys. - JETP 21, 1053 (1965) V. F. Gantmakher and I. B. Levinson, Carrier Scattering in Metals and Semiconductors (Elsevier, Amsterdam) 1987. V. F. Gantmakher, Electrons and Disorder in Solids (Oxford University Press) 2005. V. F. Gantmakher and V. T. Dolgopolov, Superconductor-insulator quantum phase transition, PHYSICS-USPEKHI 53, 1-49 (2010).

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Vsevolod Gantmakher ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Vsevolod Gantmakher

In research: Vsevolod Gantmakher appears in physics research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Vsevolod Gantmakher in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Vsevolod Gantmakher is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1935 births, 2015 deaths, Academic journal editors, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Vsevolod Gantmakher outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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