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FOCK, VLADIMIR ALEXANDRQVITCH (Theoretical Physicist) 

 V. A. Fock was born December 22, 1898. In 1922 he gradu- 

 ated from Petrograd University and remained there for further 

 study, becoming a professor in 1932. He worked at the follow- 

 ing institutions: the State Institute of Optics (1919-23, 1928-41), 

 the Leningrad Institute of Physics and Technology (1924-36), 

 and the Institute of Physics of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences 

 (1934-41, 1944-53). In 1954 he was appointed to the staff of the 

 Institute of Physical Problems of the U.S.S.R. Academy of 

 Sciences. Fock became a Corresponding Member of the 

 U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences in 1932 and in 1939, an Acade- 

 mician. He was awarded, in 1946, a Stalin Prize, and a Lenin 

 Prize in 1960. As of 1960, he was still teaching at Leningrad 

 University. In April 1959, he visited the United States to attend 

 Harvard University as a Leningrad exchange scientist. In 1958 

 he was elected a Foreign Member of the Norwegian Royal So- 

 ciety in Trondheim. 



The basic research of Fock deals with quantum mechanics, 

 quantum electro -dynamics, the theory of electromagnetic dif- 

 fraction and radio-wave propagation, the general theory of rela- 

 tivity, mathematics, and mathematical physics. His early work 

 is devoted to mechanics of elastic bodies and to theoretical 

 optics. In 1924 he established basic concepts of the theory of 

 the illumination vector in the optical field. Fock's most im- 

 portant contribution to mechanics is the solution of two- 

 dimensional static problems in the theory of elasticity. This 

 he carried out using the integral equation of Fredholm. In 1926 



