Anatoliy Petrovich Aleksandrov, Ukrainian physicist. Achievements include patents for anti-mine defense for ships during World World War II. Decorated Order of Lenin, Hero of Socialist Labour, Gold Star of Friendship Between Peoples; recipient State prize, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1942, 1949, 1951, 1953, Lenin prize, 1959.
Background
Aleksandrov, Anatoliy Petrovich was born on February 13, 1903 in Tarashcha, Kiev Region, Ukraine, StudentKiev U., 1925-1930, Leningrad. Physical-Technology Institute, 1930-1946, Corresponding member Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy Sciences, 1943-1953, member, 1953-1994, president, 1976-1986.
Education
Student, Kiev University, 1930. Student, Leningrad. Physical Technology Institute, 1946.
Career
1930-1946 associate and 1946-1955 Director, Physicotechn. Institute, USSR Academy of Science. Since 1943 corresponding member, USSR Academy of Science.
1958 member, Soviet science delegation at International Conference on the Peaceful Use of Atomic Energy, Geneva, and at 6th Pugwash Conference. 1960 elected member. Credentials Commission, Soviet of the Union, USSR Supreme Soviet, to replace Deputy I. V. Kurchatov (deceased). Specialist in physics of dielectrics and the mechanical and electrical properties of highpolymer compounds.
Discovered and studied characteristics of polymerized styrene. Made polystyrene condensers, etc.
Religion
Religiously inspired people justify violence, resist social changes, and attack on science.
Views
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Membership
Deputy Supreme Soviet, 1960—1966, since 1976. Member Communist Party Soviet Union, 1962—1994, member, central committee, 1966—1994.