Ponomarev Yevgeny Alexandrovich General data:
07.05.1929 - 12.06.2008
Place of birth: Perm city, Ural region, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Studied in: A. M. Gorky Ural StateUniversity, Sverdlovsk city, Russian SSR (since February 2, 2011,was included to First President of Russia B. M. Yeltsin Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg City, the Russian Federation) (1952);
Key interests: solar wind, solar-terrestrial connections, solar corona
Biography:
He was born on May 7, 1929 in the Perm city of Ural region of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in a family of doctors. His father was a surgeon, and his mother was a microbiologist.
In the fall of 1952, as a graduate of the A. M. Gorky Ural State University in Sverdlovsk, Russian SSR, he completed pre-diploma practice at the T. G. Shevchenko Kyiv State University. In the fall of 1953, he enrolled in postgraduate studies at the Department of Astronomy of T. G. Shevchenko Kyiv State University. S. K. Vsekhsvyatsky, who was also one of his teachers during his studies at the university, became his scientific supervisor. Thus, he joined the group of then young researchers in the field of solar and cometary astronomy, which was later called the "Vsekhsvyatsky school" or the "Kyiv school". In 1957 (according to his own memoirs, February 19, 1958), a year after completing his graduate studies, he defended his PhD thesis, where the term "solar wind" was used for the first time, actually ahead of the American astronomer Parker. S. B. Pickelner was an opponent of E. A. Ponomaryov, but despite the fact that no errors were found in the work, he did not recognize the authority of his compatriot, the author of the dynamic model of the solar corona.
During 1957 (preparations for the expedition began in 1957, but he actually arrived at the station on March 6) - 1959, he worked in Tiksa, the Arctic Research Observatory on the construction of an observation station of the Department of Astronomy at the Institute of Cosmophysics and Aeronomy of the Yakut Branch of the Academy of Sciences ( IKFIA), being the senior of the group.
In May 1959, he was enrolled as a senior scientific and technical employee of the laboratory of the "Object of the MGR (International Geophysical Year)". In 1960, he participated in an expedition to Tiks. In January 1961, he went to work in Yakutsk, where he worked in the "school of astrophysics".
In 1965, he received an invitation to work at the Siberian Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Aeronomy and Solar Physics, now ISZF, Irkutsk. In the late 1970s, he was appointed responsible for the execution of economic and contractual works. After a number of years of persistent and routine work (scientific leadership and participation in polar expeditions, the creation of a base stationary infrasound station of the ISZF in Tunkinskaya district of the Republic of Buryatia, monitoring of infrasound sources, organization of atmospheric infrasound research in auroral latitudes, in Kamchatka), his work was awarded with certificates institute, awarded with the "Badge of Honor" order.
At the end of the 1970s, a connection was established with the Ministry of Defense, and in the 1980s, farm contract work on the lines of this ministry began. Several works were carried out in this direction. Even then, the development of the concept of the propagation of infrasound signals over long distances in AAC - in atmospheric acoustic channels - began.
During the years of reforms (90s), Yevhen Oleksandrovych had a hard time experiencing the collapse in science, the decline in the pace of scientific research due to underfunding and the outflow of scientific personnel, but he stubbornly continued to work actively and look for alternative sources of funding.
In May 1996, the ISZF was officially invited to the International Conference on the Discussion of the Terms of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which was organized near Moscow, in the area of the city of Istra, and E. A. Ponomaryev was among the delegates. It was a very large conference, with by invitation of participating specialists from the USA, France, China, Canada, etc. The topic of the conference was aimed at the development of methods and means of control over the conduct of unauthorized nuclear tests on the issue of nuclear non-proliferation. Thus, as a result of many years of work, he and his colleagues managed to get involved in the topic of non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. In recent years, he led the ISZF group in 2 large International ISTC projects No. 1341 and No. 2845 aimed at methodical support of the acoustic segment of the International System for Monitoring Unsanctioned Nuclear Tests. In the course of these projects, the results of many years of work on infrasound research at ISZF were summarized, and the main results were published in prestigious world scientific publications. In July 2003, a working meeting was held in Irkutsk on the results of the ISTC project No. 1341 with the participation of colleagues from France, who approved the results obtained in the work.
Died on June 12, 2008.
He is known as the author of the dynamic model of the solar corona, within which realistic values of the flow of the number of particles in the solar wind were obtained for the first time. Among his scientific achievements is the explanation of the coastal effect in terrestrial currents, the detection and study of the regular noise background of natural electromagnetic radiation in the high latitudes of the Earth. He put forward and confirmed the hypothesis about the redistribution of energy in the Earth's magnetosphere during large storms, and developed a kinematic model of a substorm.
He was a pioneer of radiophysical and acoustic observations in the Arctic. The concept of complex terrestrial geophysical observations in high latitudes developed by him was widely used by Siberian scientists in the course of work under the program "International Studies of the Magnetosphere".
He paid great attention to setting up new geophysical experiments. Under his leadership, a new type of geophysical observation for domestic science was introduced - registration of infrasound radiation of the upper atmosphere. The results of his theoretical developments were widely used not only in fundamental, but also in applied research. Several large research projects aimed at improving the country's security were carried out under his leadership.
He also paid great attention to scientific and pedagogical work, giving lectures to students and being a scientific supervisor and consultant in the preparation of candidate and doctoral theses. 20 of his students defended their scientific theses.
He also had a talent as a poet.
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