Viktor Evgenyevich Ivanov (22.02.1908-24.12.1980) was a Soviet experimental physicist, a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1964) and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1967). He was born in the village of Staraya Maina (now in Ulyanovsk Region). He graduated from the Ashkhabad Pedagogical Institute (1942) and the Odessa Hydrometeorological Institute (1945). From 1947 he worked at the Kharkov Physico-Technical Institute (director from 1965), and at the same time he was professor at Kharkov University (from 1962).
His work was in the field of vacuum metal physics and vacuum metallurgy. He developed a new line of research in the vacuum treatment of metals and alloys, which made it possible to solve a number of scientific and technological problems in producing high-purity metals (beryllium in particular) and new heat-resistant and heat-proof materials for use in nuclear power, electronics and new technology. He developed methods of producing and vacuum-treating ultra-pure metals. Together with K. D. Sinelnikov he built (1952 — 53) the first vacuum rolling mills and laid the physical foundations of vacuum metallurgy. He proposed methods of producing new heat-resistant high-temperature materials and a number of heat-resistant and anti-corrosion high-temperature coatings. Under his direction new types of fuel element for nuclear reactors were developed.
USSR State Prize (1972).