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Hydrodynamic theory of pressure waves, temperature waves 

 and centers of atmospheric action. Doklady Akad. Nauk 

 S.S.S.R., 1943, 39, #7. 



Problem of the average annual distribution of temperature 

 in the earth's atmosphere with consideration of continents 

 and oceans. Izvest. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Ser. Geogr. i. 

 Geofiz., 1947, 2, #1. 



Problem of determining pressure at sea level. Doklady 

 Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., New Series, 1953, 92, #3. 

 Method of solving a non-linear problem of atmospheric 

 movements of a planetary scale. Doklady Akad. Nauk 

 S.S.S.R., New Series, 1956, UO, #6. 



Biography: 



Ekaterina Nikitichna Blinova. Izvest. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., 

 Ser. Geofiz., 1954, #1. 



Office: Central Institute of Weather Forecasting 



Moscow, USSR 



BLOKHINTSEV, DMITRII IVANQVICH (Physicist) 



D. I. Blokhintsev was born January 11, 1908. After graduat- 

 ing from Moscow University in 1930, he taught there and in 1936 

 was made professor. In 1935-1956 he worked at the Physics 

 Institute and at the Atomic Power Plant of the U.S.S.R. Academy 

 of Sciences. He became Director of the Joint Institute of Nucle- 

 ar Research in 1956. Since 1943, Blokhintsev has been a mem- 

 ber of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1939 he 

 was elected a Corresponding Member of the Ukrainian S.S.R. 

 Academy of Sciences and in 1958 a Corresponding Member of 

 the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. He was awarded a Stalin 

 Prize in 1952 and in 1957 a Lenin Prize. 



Blokhintsev' s interests are in the theory of solid bodies, 

 optics, acoustics, field theory, quantum mechanics, philosophy 

 of natural science, atomic physics and technology. He present- 

 ed (1934) a quantum theory of the phosphorescence of solid 

 bodies, and a theory of spectra of absorption and of fluorescence 

 of complex molecules. A series of investigations by Blokhint- 

 sev are devoted to phenomena in semi-conductors; particu- 

 larly, in the theory of solid rectifiers. Blokhintsev also in- 

 vestigated the distribution of sound in an inhomogeneous moving 

 medium. He directed the construction of the Soviet atomic 

 power plant (1954). Blokhintsev is the author of a text on 

 quantum mechanics for universities. 



