Vladimir Fortov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Russian physicist, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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Place of Birth: Noginsk, Russia
About Vladimir Fortov
- Vladimir Yevgenyevich Fortov (Russian: ???????? ?????????? ??????, born 23 January 1946 in Noginsk, Moscow Oblast) is a Russian physicist and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; on 29 May 2013 he was elected its president.
- Prior to the election, Fortov was the director of the Joint Institute for High Temperatures.
- On 22 March 2017, Fortov resigned as a President. Fortov studied physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, where he graduated from in 1968.
- In 1971, he received his Candidate of Sciences degree, and in 1976 the Doctor of Sciences degree.
- Since 1982, he was a professor at the same university.
- Between 1971 and 1986 Fortov was employed at the Institute of Chemical Physics in Chernogolovka, and between 1986 and 1992, still being a part-time researcher at the same institution, he was also employed by the Joint Institute for High Temperatures.
- In 1992, he was appointed the director of this institute.From 1993 to 1997, Fortov was the chairman of the Russian Foundation of Fundamental Research, the governmental organization responsible for funding of fundamental research.
- In 1996, he also became a chairman of the State Committee of Science and Technology, and later a minister of science and technology.
- The government he was a part of retired in 1998.According to the law, the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences is formally appointed by the President of the Russian Federation.
- Vladimir Putin, who at the time was the president of Russia, only signed the appointment of Fortov on 8 July 2013.
- On 20 March 2017, elections of the president of the Academy were scheduled, and Fortov run as one of the three candidates.
- Unexpectedly the previous day all candidates retracted their nominations, and the elections were canceled.
- On 22 March, Fortov resigned, citing health issues, and Valery Kozlov was appointed acting president.
- The research of Fortov was related to thermal physics, shock waves, and plasma physics.
- He was involved with applications, in particular, to energy production.
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