209 KUZNETSOV 



Office: Mining and Geological Institute of Siberian Branch, 



USSR Academy of Sciences 

 Novosibirsk, Siberia 



KUZNETSOV, V^LADIMIR DMITRIEVICH (Physicist) 



V. D. Kuznetsov was born April 30, 1887. In 1910 he gradu- 

 ated from Petersburg University and in 1911 began working in 

 higher educational institutions of Tomsk. He became a pro- 

 fessor at Tomsk University where he had been since 1917. Be- 

 ginning in 1929, he has directed the Siberian Physico-Technical 

 Institute organized by him. Since 1945 Kuznetsov has been a 

 member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Having 

 been a Corresponding Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sci- 

 ences since 1946, he became an Academician in 1958. He was 

 made an Honored Scientist of RSFSR in 1945 and Hero of Social- 

 ist Labor in 1957, and in 1942 he was awarded a Stalin Prize. 



The basic direction of Kuznetsov' s work is comprehensive 

 investigation of the properties of solids and the phenomena oc- 

 curring in solids during their technological treatment. Kuznet- 

 sov studied surface energy, hardness, and other properties of 

 crystals; internal friction of solids; plasticity and strength of 

 metallic single crystals and poly-crystals; the mechanism of 

 crystallization and recrystallization; external friction and wear 

 of metals and alloys; and the cutting of metals. He wrote a 

 multi -volume monograph. The Physics of Solids. Kuznetsov 

 worked out a basic physical theory of cutting which showed both 

 theoretically and experimentally the possibility of rapid cutting 

 of metals. This was later confirmed in practice. 



As of 1961, Kuznetsov was a Member of the Presidium of the 

 Siberian Branch USB.S.R. Academy of Sciences. 

 Bibliography: 



and others. The Physics of Solids, 1^. Tomsk: 1937-1949. 



Crystals and Crystallization. Moscow: 1953. 



Surface Energy of Solids. Moscow: 1954. 



Excrescences in Cutting and Wearing. Moscow: 1956. 

 Biography: 



Studies in the Physics of Solids, Collection of Articles. 



Dedicated to the 70th Birthday of Corresponding Member 



V. D. Kuznetsov of the Academy of Sciences U.S.S.R. 



Moscow, 1957. 

 Office: Presidium of the Siberian Department of USSR 



Academy of Sciences 

 Novosibirsk, Siberia 



