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elected to the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences as a Corresponding 

 Member in 1939. In 1950 he was awarded a State Prize. 



Predvoditelev's principal works have been in the field of 

 molecular physics, hydrodynamics and thermal physics dealing 

 with investigations in combustion processes, wave distribution 

 in liquid and gas media, and with problems of gas dynamics of 

 reactant media and physical properties of liquid. He developed 

 a theory of heterogenous combustions which establishes a re- 

 lationship between the chemical and physical processes facili- 

 tating carbon combustion. 

 Bibliography: 



Carbon combustion, 1949 (monograph). 

 Molecular kinetics basis for hydrodynamic equilibria. Iz- 

 vest. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Otdel. Tekh. Nauk, 1948, #4. 

 The relationship between heat conductivity, heat capacity, 

 and viscosity in viscous bodies. Zhur. Exptl. i Teoret. Fiz., 

 1934, 4. 



Fluctuations in statistical systems. Journal of Moscow Uni- 

 versity, 1948, #4. 



Physical Gas Dynamics. Editor in Chief. Akad. Nauk 

 S.S.S.R. Energet. Inst. Translated by R. C. Murray and 

 D. R. H. Phillips. New York: Pergamon Press, 1961. 

 183 p. 



Physics of Heat Exchange and Gas Dynamics (Translation). 

 New York: Consultants Bureau, 1962, 95 p. 

 and others. Charts for thermodynamic functions of air, for 

 temperatures of 1000 to 12,000 K and pressures of 0.001 to 

 1000 atm. Glen Ridge, N. J. Translated and published by 

 Associated Technical Services, 1962. 53 p. 

 Residence: Leninskiye gory, sekt. "K" 



Moscow, USSR 

 Telephone: B9 19 54 



PROKHOROV, ALEKSANDR MIKHAILOVICH (Radio Physicist) 



A. M. Prokhorov was born in 1916. He graduated from 

 Leningrad State University in 1939. In 1959, he became a pro- 

 fessor. In 1941-1944, he served in the Soviet Army. From 

 1946 to 1954 he was the Senior Scientific Worker at the U.S.S.R. 

 Academy of Sciences Lebedev Institute of Physics, and in 1954 

 he was made Chief of the Oscillation Laboratory of this insti- 

 tute. He received a Lenin Prize in 1959. Prokhorov has been 

 a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 

 1960. He was elected, in 1960, a Corresponding Member of the 

 U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. 



