Vladimir Lipunov

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Vladimir Mikhailovich Lipunov (Russian: Владимир Михайлович Липунов; born August 17, 1952, in Raichikhinsk, Amur Oblast) is a Soviet and Russian astrophysicist, Professor of the Moscow State University, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1991), a member of the International Astronomical Union (1993) and the European Astronomical Society (1993). He is also a science fiction writer under the pseudonym Vladimir Khlumov (Russian: Владимир Хлумов) and a member of the Union of Russian Writers.

Vladimir Lipunov
Vladimir M. Lipunov. Moscow, Moscow State University, 3.3.2017
Born
Vladimir Mikhailovich Lipunov

17 August 1952
CitizenshipRussia
Alma materMoscow State University
Known forMaster Global Robotic Telescopes Net
AwardsLaureate of the All-Union Competition of the Society "Znanie" (1987); M.V. Lomonosov Prize of Moscow State University (2002); Honored Educator of the Higher School of the Russian Federation (2006)
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics
InstitutionsMoscow State University
Sternberg Astronomical Institute
Academic advisorsYakov Borisovich Zel'dovich

Biography

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In 1976, he graduated from Moscow State University and until 1979 worked in Kyiv at the Main Astronomical Observatory of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.

In 1982, he finished his post-graduate course of the Moscow State University under the supervision of the academician Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich and since 1981 to 1992 was Associated Professor in the Astronomical Department of the Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University and worked at the P.K. Shternberg State Astronomical Institute. Then he began to work as a Professor at the Chair of Astrophysics and Stellar Astronomy of the Moscow State University, where he lectures and conducts seminars up to the present.[1]

Achievements

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In December 2014, Lipunov, with the help of the Master Global Robotic Telescopes Net, recovered a new Potentially hazardous object, according to the Russian news agencies, larger than the already known asteroid 99942 Apophis. The new asteroid was named 2014 UR116.[2][3]

He is the author of more than 700 scientific publications, including monograph "Astrophysics of Neutron Stars".[4][5]

As a science fiction writer

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He is the author of the plays The Children of the Stars (1990), The Old Song (1996), The Night Watch (1996), and the novels The Leaves of Moscow Autumn (1996), The Old Virgin Mary (1997), The Lovely (1998), The Seagull Named Fedor (2000), Master of Smoke Rings (2000), Fatal letters (2002).[6]

In April 1999, Lipunov organized a literary Internet magazine Russky Pereplet.[7]

Awards and honours

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  • Laureate of the All-Union Competition of the Society "Znanie" (1987)
  • M.V. Lomonosov Prize of Moscow State University (2002)
  • Honored Educator of the Higher School of the Russian Federation (2006)

References

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  1. ^ Lipunov Vladimir Mikhailovich
  2. ^ Russian astrophysicists discovered a new asteroid that could be dangerous to the Earth
  3. ^ TASS: Space - Russian astrophysicists discovered a new asteroid that could be dangerous to the Earth
  4. ^ Липунов, В.М. Астрофизика нейтронных звезд. Москва: Наука, 1987
  5. ^ Lipunov, Vladimir M. Astrophysics of Neutron Stars. Editor Börner, G. Berlin: Springer, 1992 ISBN 978-3-642-76352-6 [1]
  6. ^ Лаборатория фантастики. Владимир Хлумов
  7. ^ Русский переплет