Background
Drobyshevski, Edward Mikhailovich was born on April 18, 1936 in St. Petersburg, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Son of Mikhail Iosifovich Drobyshevski and Lidia Makarovna (Terikhova) Drobyshevskaya.
Drobyshevski, Edward Mikhailovich was born on April 18, 1936 in St. Petersburg, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Son of Mikhail Iosifovich Drobyshevski and Lidia Makarovna (Terikhova) Drobyshevskaya.
Graduate, Leningrad Polytech. Institute, 1959; Candidate in Physical Mathematics Sciences, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences, Leningrad, 1965. Doctor in Physical Mathematics Sciences, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences, Leningrad, 1982.
Senior laboratory assistant Ioffe Physical Technology Institute, Leningrad, 1959-1960, junior scientist, 1960-1979, senior scientist, 1979-1986, leading scientist, 1986-1991, laboratory head St. Petersburg, Russia, 1991—2004, major scientist Russia, since 1993.
Member COSPAR, European Astronomical Society, Hypervelocity Impact Society.
Married Victoria Nikolaevna Ilyinykh, January 1957 (divorced May 1967). 1 child, Svetlana; Married Natalya Dmitrievna Kotyurgina, August 18, 1967 (divorced April 2008). Children: Dmitri, Mikhail.