GALIN 116 



Office: Institute of Electrochemistry 



Leninskii Prospekt, 31 

 Moscow, USSR 



GALIN, LEV ALEKSANDROVICH (Mechanical Engineer) 



L. A. Galin was born September 28, 1912. Upon graduation 

 from the Moscow Technological Institute of Light Industry, he 

 worked at the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences Institute of Me- 

 chanics. In 1956 he became a professor at Moscow University. 

 He has been a member of the Communist Party since 1951, and 

 was elected to the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences as a Corre- 

 sponding Member in 1953. 



The main work of Galin is in the theory of elasticity. He has 

 investigated the elastic -plastic problems in unsettled filtration 

 of liquids. 

 Bibliography: 



Contact Problems of the Theory of Elasticity. Moscow: 



1953. 



Plane elastic-plastic problem. Priklad. Mat. i Mekh., 1946, 



10, #3. 

 Office: Moscow University 



Moscow, USSR 

 Residence: Sr. Pervomaiskaya, 21 



Moscow, USSR 

 Telephone: E5 50 38 



GEL^FAND, IZRAIL MOISEEVICH (Mathematician) 



I. M. Gel'fand was born August 20, 1913 in Krasnie Okni, 

 Odessa Oblast. He was a postgraduate student at Moscow Uni- 

 versity in 1935, where in 1940, he was granted the degree of 

 Doctor of Physical-Mathematical Sciences. He was made a 

 professor in 1943. In 1932 he began his employment with Mos- 

 cow University, and since 1939 has been working at the U.S.S.R. 

 Academy of Sciences Institute of Mathematics. He is also 

 working at the Institute of Biophysics. In 1951 he was awarded 

 a Stalin Prize for his work in the theory of representation of 

 groups. He was elected to the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences as 

 a Corresponding Member in 1953. 



In his thesis for the candidate's degree, Gel'fand developed 

 the theory of integration of functions. His thesis for the 

 Doctor's degree was devoted to the theory of normalized rings. 

 This theory served as a basis for functional analysis in the 

 most varied areas of mathematics: theory of trigonometric 

 series, group theory, theory of differential equations. Since 



