Vladimir Fortov (1946-2020) was a Soviet and Russian physicist, an Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1991, a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR since 1987). He is a laureate of State Prize of the USSR (1988), State Prize of the Russian Federation (1997), State Prize of the Russian Federation named after Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov (2012) and four prizes of the Government of the Russian Federation (1997, 1999, 2003, 2010). He is a Full Cavalier of the Order of Merit to the Fatherland.
In 1968, he graduated with honors from the Aeromechanical Faculty of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and was admitted to a postgraduate school. Since 1982, he has been a Professor in specialty of chemical physics, including combustion and explosion physics.
In 1996-1997, Vladimir Fortov was a Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation; the Minister of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation; and the Chairman of the State Committee of the Russian Federation for Science and Technology (1996-1998). From 2007 to 2018, he was the Director of the Joint Institute of High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2013–2017).
His principle papers are devoted to the physics of powerful shock waves in dense plasma and extreme states of matter. Under the guidance of Vladimir Fortov and with his direct participation, theoretical and experimental work was carried out in the field of high-energy-density physics, physics of non-ideal plasma and chemical physics, space physics, theory of combustion and explosion, thermophysical properties of substances and their behavior under extreme conditions.
In the world science, he is known as the author and the leader of a new scientific direction: dynamic physics of non-ideal plasma. He made a fundamental contribution to the research cycle on the physics of high energy densities on the Angara-5-1 complex.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of Vladimir Fortov and the Order for Merit to the Fatherland.
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