Fiodar Fiodaraŭ

This article is about the physicist. For the ice hockey player, see Fedor Fedorov (ice hockey).

Fiodar Fiodaraŭ (Belarusian: Фёдар Іванавіч Фёдараў, Fiodar Ivanavič Fiodaraŭ, Russian: Фёдор Иванович Фёдоров, Fedor Ivanovich Fedorov), June 19, 1911–October 13, 1994, was a Soviet and Belarusian physicist whose scientific interests ranged from optics and spectroscopy to the theory of elementary particles.

Biography

He was born in the village of Turets in Karelichy Raion, Hrodna Voblast, Belarus, to a family of rural schoolteachers, but his father, Ivan Michaiłavič Fiodaraŭ, later became a famous Belarusian writer.

During the Second World War, Fiodaraŭ worked in the city of Kiselevsk in Novosibirsk Region as an associate professor of Moscow Aviation Institute. In 1943 he became the dean of the Physics Faculty of the Belarusian State University which had resumed its work near the Skhodnya railroad station outside Moscow while Belarus was still under occupation. He was in office until 1950.

He took an active part in the organization of the Institute of Physics and Mathematics of the Belarus Science Academy and was the leader of one of the four major laboratories there (the laboratory of theoretical physics) until 1987.

Until the end of his life Fiodaraŭ was a professor at the Belarusian State University. He was also a prolific writer and published over 400 research articles.

See also

• Imbert–Fiodaraŭ effect

External links

• Biography (in Russian)
• Article about Fedorov dedicated to his 90th birthday (in Russian)