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Ibragimov, Shavkat Shigabutdinovich

Shavkat Shigabutdinovich Ibragimov (born 22.10.1923) was a Soviet physicist, an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR (1970) and its vice-president (from 1974). He was born in Kazan. He graduated from the Kazan Aviation Institute (1948). In 1956-69 he worked at the Institute of Physics and Power Engineering (Obninsk), from 1970 he was director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR and from 1974 professor at Kazakh University. His research concerned solid-state physics, radiation materials science, nuclear power and nuclear engineering. He studied the changes in the physical and mechanical properties and in the structure of materials brought about by irradiation, and established a number of phenomena and regularities of importance in the theory of radiation damage in crystals. The State Prize of the Kazakh SSR (1978).