Arseny Sokolov


Arseny Alexandrovich Sokolov was a Russian theoretical physicist known for the development of synchrotron radiation theory.

Biography

Arseny Sokolov graduated from Tomsk State University in 1931. He obtained the degree of Kandidat nauk from TSU under supervision of Piotr Tartakovsky. The degree of Doktor nauk was obtained by him from Leningrad Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute.
Then he moved to Moscow State University, where he held the positions of the dean of the Faculty of Physics and the head of the Theoretical Physics Department at the Faculty of Physics. He was a member of the Soviet Communist Party, a dean and secretary of bureau of the Communist Party of the Physics Department of the Moscow State University.

Research

Sokolov's research areas were quantum field theory and elementary particle physics.

Books

Doctoral students