Background
Mikhail Golant was born to well-educated parents in Moscow on 3 February 1923. His father, Boris Golant, was a food chemistry His mother was a doctor of medicine.
Mikhail Golant was born to well-educated parents in Moscow on 3 February 1923. His father, Boris Golant, was a food chemistry His mother was a doctor of medicine.
He worked with Nikolay Devyatkov on the application of EHF therapy. Mikhail Golant began to attend the Moscow Energy Institute (MEI) in 1940. His studies were interrupted by the military draft following the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, when Golant was eighteen.
He took part in the Red Army"s campaigns against both Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan as a sapper from 1941 to 1945 and was wounded on three occasions.
Golant returned to the Moscow Energy Institute following his demobilization in April 1946 and graduated with distinction in 1951. Golant"s research teams developed a novel approach to designing backward-wave tubes in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Though superseded by advances in semiconductors, Golant"s designs made possible a variety of experiments and investigations using millimeter and submillimeter wave ranges. He died on 7 February 2001.
Military Civilian.