Mentsin Yuliy Lvovich General data:
Born: 30.07.1952
Place of birth: Chernivtsi city, Chernivtsi region, Ukrainian SSR
Studied in: N. I. Lobachevsky Gorky State University (since 1990, M. I. Lobachevsky Nizhny Novgorod State University) (1975);
Key interests: history of astronomy. PhD Thesis: Genesis of the field concept in Maxwell's electrodynamics (1987 Institute of the History of Natural Science and Technology);
Biography:
He was born on July 30, 1952 in Chernivtsi city of Chernivtsi region of the Ukrainian SSR.
In 1975 he graduated from the Faculty of Radio Physics of N. I. Lobachevsky Gorky State University.
During 1980-1983 he studied at the full-time graduate school of the Institute of History of Natural Sciences and Technology of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
In 1987 he received the degree of Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
He has been working at the P. K. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute of M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University since 1986. He went from an engineer to a senior researcher (he received the title in 1998).
Since 2001 he has been the head of the Museum of the History of the University Observatory of the P. K. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute.
The area of scientific interests of the scientist is the history and sociology of science. Main areas of research: the history of astronomy in Russia, the history of classical field theory, the scientific revolution of 16-17 centuries.
In 1987 he successfully defended his dissertation at the Institute of History of Science and Technology on "Genesis of the concept of field in Maxwell's electrodynamics", devoted to the analysis of the processes of formation in the works of Faraday and Maxwell fundamentally new ideas about the structure of physical reality.
Main scientific results:
1) In the archives of the Russian Federation found and studied a number of materials relating to the history of astronomy at Moscow University. The results of the research were published in a number of issues of the yearbook "Historical and Astronomical Research" and a collective monograph "On the study of the phenomenon of Soviet physics in the 1950-1960's. Sociocultural and interdisciplinary aspects." St. Petersburg, 2014. (Chairman of the P. K. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute of M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1950-1960. (Chronicle of major events).)
2) Some social aspects of the Western European scientific revolution of the 16th-17th centuries have been studied. Among other things, the role of the Royal Society of London in the development of political philosophy in the second half of the 17th century and the role of Isaac Newton in the preparation and implementation of financial reform at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Author of over 100 scientific and popular science publications.
In 1998-2001 he taught a special course "Science and Civil Society." Social aspects of the scientific revolution of the 16th-17th centuries ". Since 2017 he has been teaching the interfaculty course "Scientific Revolution of the 16th-17th Centuries and Civil Society" for students of the Lomonosov Moscow State University.
He is a member of the National Association of Historians of Science of the USA and a member of the editorial board of the yearbook "Historical and Astronomical Research".
Sources:
1 Àñòðîíîìû Ðîññèè 1917-2017/ íàó÷. ðåä. À.Ì.×åðåïàùóê, Êàçàíü, Êàçàí. ôåä. óí-ò, 2017.- 568ñ- C. 305
