Rem Khokhlov

Rem Viktorovich Khokhlov (Russian: Рем Викторович Хохлов; born July 15, 1926 in Livny; died August 8, 1977 in Moscow) was a Soviet physicist and university teacher, rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University, one of the founders of nonlinear optics.[1][2][3]

Rem Viktorovich Khokhlov
Born(1926-07-15)15 July 1926
Livny, Orel region, USSR
Died8 August 1977(1977-08-08) (aged 51)
CitizenshipRussia
Alma materMoscow State University (1948)
Known forOne of the founders of nonlinear optics
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsRadiophysics, Nonlinear optics
InstitutionsMoscow State University
Doctoral advisorPyotr Krasnushkin
Doctoral studentsAnatoly Sukhorukov,
Vladimir Braginsky,
Vladimir Parygin

Biography

Khokhlov was born in the family of political officer and graduate of the Moscow Energetic Institute Viktor Khristoforovich Khokhlov and physicist Maria Yakovlevna. He graduated from a seven-year school in 1941 and worked in a car workshop during the Great Patriotic War. In 1944, he externally passed exams in high school and began to study at the Moscow Aviation Institute. In 1945, he moved to the Physics department at Moscow State University, where he spent his whole life. After graduating from university in 1948, he entered graduate school at the Department of Oscillation Physics. In 1952 he defended his thesis with the title of candidate of physical and mathematical sciences(PhD). With his investigations into vibrational physics he belonged to the third generation of the vibration physics school of Leonid I. Mandelstam and Nikolai D. Papaleksi. In 1959, he was sent to a one-year study visit to the United States at Stanford University. In 1962 he was awarded a doctorate (habilitation) in doctoral studies. Khokhlov organized together with S. A. Akhmanov, the first laboratory for nonlinear optics of the Soviet Union at the Lomonosov Moscow State University.[4]

Selected publications
  • Krasnushkin P. E., Khokhlov R. V. Spatial beats in coupled wave guides. National Research Council of Canada, 1952.
  • Akhmanov, S. A.; Khokhlov, R. V. (1972), Problems of nonlinear optics (Electromagnetic Waves in Nonlinear Dispersive Media), Gordon and Breach, p. 310
  • Kaner, V.V., Rudenko, O.V., Khokhlov, R.V. Theory Of Nonlinear Oscillations In Acoustic Resonators. Sov Phys Acoust. 1977

References
  • Grigorʹev, I. G. (1985), Rem Khokhlov (Outstanding Soviet scientists), Moscow: Mir Publishers

Honors

Footnotes
  1. V. J. Frenkel, Encyclopedia.com: Khokhlov, Rem Victorovich (accessed on July 9, 2016).
  2. I. S. Drowenikov: Khokhlow's Phenomenon (Russian, accessed July 9, 2016).
  3. Akhmanov S A, Basov N G, Voronin É S, Gaponov A V, Kadomtsev B B, Keldysh L V, Logunov A A, Migulin V V, Prokhorov A M, Rytov S M, Stel’makh M F, Ternov I M, Fursov V S, Yakovlev I A (1978), "Rem Viktorovich Khokhlov (Obituary)", Sov. Phys. Usp., 21, pp. 176–179CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. Трухин, В. И., ed. (2003), Физическому факультету МГУ- 70 лет. Юбилейный сборник (PDF), Moscow: Аванта+, p. 88
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