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Migulin, Vladimir Vasilyevich

Vladimir Vasilyevich Migulin (born 10.07.1911) is a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1970). He was born in Sereda (now Furmanov, Ivanovo Region). He graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (1932). In 1932—34 he worked at the Leningrad Electrophysical Institute, in 1934—41 at the Physical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and in 1946—51 he was head of a section of the Thermal Engineering Laboratory of the USSR Academy of Sciences, in 1951—54 director of the Sukhumi Physico-Technical Institute, and from 1969 he has been director of the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, the Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation of the USSR Academy of Sciences. From 1935 he has taught at Moscow University (a professor from 1948, in 1957—69 head of a department). His work concerned the theory of oscillations, radio interferometry, cryogenic radiophysics, and the study of the propagation of radio waves and of the Earth's ionosphere and magnetosphere. USSR State Prizes (1946, 1953).