Lidov Mikhail Lvovich General data:
04.10.1926 - 30.12.1993
Place of birth: Cherkasy city, Rostov district, North Caucasus region, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (now Cherkasy region, Ukraine)
Studied in: M. Vþ Lomonosov Moscow State University (1954);
Key interests: celestial mechanics, space missions. ScD Thesis: He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences without prior defense of his dissertation (1964 );
Biography:
He was born on October 4, 1926 in Cherkasy of Rostov District of North Caucasus Krai of Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic (now Cherkasy region of Ukraine).
The real name of his father, who was repressed in 1936, that is, convicted of counter-revolutionary activities, and in 1941, spent 19 years in camps and exiles and returned home only after rehabilitation in 1955, is Kotner.
In 1933 the family moved to Moscow City.
Michael graduated from high school. Since December 1942 to May 1944 he worked at the M. Gorky Moscow Art Theater as a sham.
In 1944 he was drafted into the armed forces and served in the army since 1944, master of aviation armament of the 244th Air Regiment. He continued his service in the Soviet Army until 1951.
In 1954 he graduated with honors from M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, on the correspondence department of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of which he entered in 1949 and after demobilization moved to the ophthalmology department (immediately in the 3rd year).
Since 1955 he worked in the Interdepartmental Commission for the Coordination and Control of Scientific and Theoretical Work in the Field of Organization and Implementation of Interplanetary Communications under the Astrorad of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Since 1957 he worked in the Department of Applied Mathematics of the V. A. Steklov Mathematical Institute of Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He passed his career growth from junior researcher to chief research associate.
In 1964 (according to other sources in 1965) he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences without prior defense of his dissertation.
In 1966-1976 he worked part-time as a professor at the Department of Theoretical Mechanics of M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University and in 1982-1991 he taught part-time at the Moscow Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation.
He was a member of the National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and a member of the editorial board of the journals "Space Research" and "PAGE".
He died on December 30, 1993 in Moscow City from a heart attack and buried in the New Don Cemetery.
The main scientific research is related to the fields of celestial mechanics and dynamics of space flight, the author of more than 120 scientific papers in domestic and foreign journals, including a textbook and two editions of the monograph.
In 1954 he performed a study of a special class of solutions of the equations of gas dynamics, which allowed to obtain a fairly complete picture of the temperature regime of the artificial satellite of the Earth. In the late 1950's he performed pioneering work to determine the parameters of the Earth's upper atmosphere from observations of the movement of artificial satellites of the Earth and discovered the effect of diurnal variations in atmospheric density.
In the following years he became one of the leaders in the field related to the tasks of ballistic design and flight control of spacecraft. Works on the analysis of flight trajectories to the moon, as well as developed control schemes for spacecraft were directly used in solving many problems of the domestic lunar program (flying around the moon with a photograph of its reverse side, soft landing on the Moon, delivery to the moon lunar satellites and delivery of lunar soil samples to Earth).
In 1961 he founded a new direction in celestial mechanics - the theory of the evolution of orbits. This led, in particular, to the discovery of a previously unknown effect - the fall of a satellite to the planet's surface for a limited period of time under the action of gravitational perturbations from a distant celestial body. He received in the world celestial-mechanical literature the name of the Lidovo-Kozai effect or mechanism. This effect is manifested in various satellite, planetary and stellar systems.
Since the end of the 1960s, together with his students, he has performed a number of developments on numerical-analytical methods for calculating the motion of artificial celestial bodies. These methods are implemented and widely used in the design of orbits of satellites "Electron", "Forecast", communications satellites in geostationary and high apogee orbits. Based on the work on the identification and practical construction of special classes of trajectories in the classical limited problem of three bodies ML Ledov proposed a variant of a stable spatial periodic orbit for a space radio interferometer. Under his scientific supervision, eight candidate and three doctoral dissertations were completed and defended.
In 1960 for a long cycle of works M, L. Lidov was awarded the Lenin Prize.
Participant in the Great Patriotic War. He was awarded state awards: Medal "For Victory over Germany" in 1945, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor in 1970, the Order of the Patriotic War of the II degree in 1985. In his honor, the International Astronomical Union named Lidov asteroid #4236 of Main Belt which was discovered in 1979 by N. S. Chernykh.
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