Dmitrij Vasilievich Volkov

Main data of the life and work

1925, June 3 - born in Leningrad.

1943 – called to the ranks of the Red Army.

1944-1945 – took part in the battles on the Karelian front and on the 1st Far East front.

1946 - ordered the medals "For Battle Services", "For Labor Merit", "For the Victory over the Germany during the Great World War of 1941-1945", "For the Victory over Japan".

1947-1952 – the student of Leningrad and then (according the Order of the Ministry of Higher Education) Kharkov State University.

1952-1956 – post-graduate student at Kharkov State University.

1956-1967 – scientific assistant of KhPhTI, senior scientific worker of KhPhTI, head of the laboratory of KhPhTI.

1958 – Awarded the scientific degree of candidate of physico-mathematical sciences.

1958, 1961, 1962 – scientific business trips to CERN. Works, done during this period, stimulated statistics of known elementary particles theoretical and experimental explorations  as well as hypothetical quark-particles.

1959 – Proposed a new scheme of quantum fields – Green-Volkov parastatistics and statistics, which played an important role in the development of quark structure of hadrons hypothesis.

1960 – Participation in the International Congress on elementary particles physics in the USA.

1962 – Discovery (together with V.N.Gribov) of the phenomenon, which was called Regge poles conspiracy, that provoked a great flow of theoretical and experimental works in the sphere of high energy physics.

1963 – Scientific business trip to Copenhagen (Institute of theoretical physics named after Niles Bohr)

1965 (July-August) – work on probation in CERN. Conducted explorations in the sphere of higher symmetries usage to the study of strong interactions between elementary particles.

1965-1970 – Solved the problem of spontaneous vacuum passages in Veneziano and Nevue-Schwarz dual models. Proved the connection of dual Regge amplitudes and trajectories with inner symmetries and flows algebra.

1967-1995 – President of KFTI Library Council. Did the much for improvement of qualitative structure of library funds and equipment the Institute with scientific-technical information

1968 – Awarded scientific degree of Doctor of physico-mathematical sciences. Took part in the work of the XIVth International Congress in high energies physics in Veinna (Austria) as a representative of the Soviet delegation. Presented the work on phenomenological langrangians method.

1971-1973 – Carried out the cycle of works in the field of new type of symmetry. Discovered supersymmetry. Carried out first in the world literature works in supergravity, started the development of its theory.

1975 – Taking part in the International High Energy Physics Conference in Warsaw.

1976 – Elected the Associate Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the speciality"theoretical physics"/ Awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

1976, November – Work at the CERN Theory Group.

1977, February – Work at the theoretical department of CERN according to the invitation of its director L. Van-Hove. Conducted the exploration on the connection between various notions of supergravity theories. Performed the report "The Goldstone fermions and supergravity".

1977 – Awarded the scientific degree of Professor on the speciality "theoretical and mathematical physics"

1981-1985 – Initiated the discovery of spontaneous compactification of space and carried out the cycle of original works, dedicated to compactifications of space measurements in supergravity theories. 

1985 – Awarded the Order of the Great World War, the 2nd Degree.

1986 – Awarded the Medal "Veteran of Labor"

1987-1995 – The member of the editorial board of the journal "Nuclear Physics" (Moscow), the collection "Problem of nuclear physics and space beams" (KhSU, Kharkov), member of the National Council on the problem "Nuclear Physics" of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

1988 – Elected the Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences on the speciality "Theoretical Physics".

1988-1989 – Suggested new ideas, connected with the inclusion of twistors into the superparticles and superstrings theory, built new twistor-like formulations of the action functionals for these theories.

1993 – Took part as an expert in the work of the Soros Committee (Washington).

1994 – Invited to the International Conference of the authors of original ideas and discoveries of the XXth century in physics of elementary particles in Erich (Italy) with the report "Supergravity before 1976", where he explained connection and differencies of his and western approaches.

1995 – Made a report in the International Conference "Supersymmetry 95" in Paris. The new concept of the generalized principle of action for superstrings and supermembranes was proposed.

1996, January 5 – the date of death.

1997 – Awarded the Prize named after Walter Thirring for scientific discoveries of supersymmetry and supergravity by the International Institute of Mathematical Physics, Astrophysics and Nuclear Investigations (posthumous).


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