Honorary professor of Altai State University Anatoly Lagutin celebrates his jubilee
On October 1, a famous astrophysicist, honorary professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Head of the Department of Radiophysics and Theoretical Physics of AltSU, founder and director of the Center for Space Monitoring of Altai State University Anatoly Lagutin celebrates his jubilee.
At the Faculty of Physics and Technology, he was accepted into the school of an outstanding physicist Anatoly Kolchuzhkin. His scientific mentor-teacher was a theoretical physicist Vladimir Uchaikin. The final work of Anatoly Alekseevich was devoted to a fundamentally new approach to the description of processes in space physics - the stochastic theory of cascade processes in cosmic rays. The first result of the work of Lagutin and Uchaikin was an article in the journal Nuclear Physics, which was published in 1975. It outlined a new approach, showed a new class of kinetic equations. Subsequent studies made it possible to construct a stochastic theory of cascade processes in cosmic rays, and for the first time to solve many problems.
In 1974, after graduating from Tomsk Polytechnic Institute, at the invitation of Altai State University, Anatoly Lagutin came to Altai. Altai State University became his first and main place of work for life! He has made a career from a senior laboratory assistant and assistant to the head of the department to director of the Environmental Monitoring Research Institute, organizer and permanent director of the Center for Space Monitoring.
Anatoly Alekseevich did a lot to develop physical and technical education at AltSU. He created a strong scientific school in theoretical physics and astrophysics at our university.
He says:
– I was lucky that, in addition to astrophysics, I managed to deal with the problem of nuclear tests at the Semipalatinsk test site. The initiator of this was Yakov Shoikhet, one of my teachers. Yakov Naumovich is an outstanding doctor, scientist, and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1992, he made me part of the government commission that went to the Semipalatinsk test site to make the first assessments of the possible impact of nuclear tests on the inhabitants of the region. We were able to get acquainted with reports on nuclear tests in the atmosphere: the height of the explosion, power, and doses. Our commission prepared an official document with fixation of influence, and this was the start of the creation of the program "Semipalatinsk test site - Altai". And in 1995, our group of physicists created an original method for assessing the radiation doses received.
At the initiative of Anatoly Lagutin, the AltSU Space Monitoring Center was opened at the university. Now three ground satellite stations receive data from a number of instruments from space platforms in real time operation.
Anatoly Lagutin explains:
– We receive a large amount of operational satellite information, which allows measuring the characteristics of the atmosphere and the surface of the territory of Altai Krai more than 30 times a day, conduct operational monitoring of the characteristics of the climate system of the Siberian region, search for possible sources of emergency situations, measure the moisture content of snow, keep floods under control, quickly record forest and steppe fires. A scientific and educational complex for remote sensing has been created on our base.
Anatoly Alekseevich is the author of hundreds of scientific and educational works, monographs and books in Russian, English and French. The scientific authority of Lagutin is recognized both in Russia and abroad. He has repeatedly spoken at the largest scientific conferences and symposiums in different countries of the world. The function of the spatial distribution of electrons in extensive air showers and the model of nonclassical diffusion of cosmic rays are named after Lagutin.
Anatoly Lagutin is an honored worker of AltSU, a laureate of many scientific competitions and grants. In 1996 he was awarded the Honorary Diploma of the State Committee for Higher Education of the Russian Federation. In 2000, the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences awarded Anatoly Alekseevich a state scientific scholarship as an outstanding Russian scientist.
Among his students there are outstanding physicists who today work in leading scientific centers and companies in Russia, Germany, the Czech Republic, and the USA.
The Department of Radiophysics and Theoretical Physics, the Institute of Digital Technologies, Electronics and Physics, the Academic Council of Altai State University, the administration, many generations of university students congratulate Anatoly Alekseevich on his jubilee, wish him health, optimism, interesting work and scientific discoveries!