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and D. N. Suglobov, G. A. Romanov. Structure of UO2- 

 (N03)2-N02. Doklady Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 146, #5, 1078-80 

 (1962). 

 Office: V. G. Khlopin Radium Institute of USSR Academy of 



Sciences 

 Ulitsa Roentgena 1 

 Leningrad, USSR 



VEKSHINSKII, SERGEI ARKAD'EVICH (Electronics Physicist) 



S. A. Vekshinskii was born October 15, 1896. He studied at 

 Leningrad and Don Polytechnic Institutes. From 1922 to 1928 

 he was chief engineer of the Electrovacuum plant in Leningrad. 

 He became Chief of the Vacuum Laboratory of "Svetlana" in 

 1928. He was chief engineer from 1936 to 1939 and a consultant 

 from 1939 to 1941 at this plant. Vekshinskii was made Director 

 of the Scientific Research Vacuum Institute in 1947. In 1940 he 

 became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 

 In 1946 he was elected Corresponding Member of the U.S.S.R. 

 Academy of Sciences and in 1953 Academician. He received a 

 Stalin Prize in 1946, and in 1956 he was a Hero of Socialist 

 Labor. In 1962 he was awarded the A. S. Popov Gold Medal. 



Vekshinskii has worked on a new method of obtaining and 

 investigating metallic alloys. The results of this work are set 

 forth by Vekshinskii in his monograph, *New Method of Metallo- 

 graphic Study of Alloys" (1944, Stalin Prize 1946). He designed 

 a whole series of new electronic devices which were utilized in 

 industry. At the Scientific Research Vacuum Institute, he 

 directs the development of vacuum apparatus for various 

 branches of industry. 

 Bibliography: 



A new method of Metallographic Study of Alloys. 1944. 



and M. I. Menshikov, I. S. Rabinovich. High -vacuum pumps 



and units for accelerators. Vacuum (GB) 9, 201-6 (1959). 



SA(A) 64, 9426 (1961). 

 Biography: 



E. V. Gurvich. S. A. Vekshinskii. Radiotekh. i Elektron, 



1956,1, *12. 

 Office: USSR Academy of Sciences Scientific Research 



Institute 

 Moscow, USSR 



VEKSLER, VLADIMIR lOSIFQVICH (Physicist) 



V. I. Veksler was born March 4, 1907. In 1931 he graduated 

 from Moscow Institute of Energetics. He was at the All- Union 



