Education
Moscow State University.
inventor physicist university professor nuclear scientist
Moscow State University.
He is best known for his invention in 1968 of electron cooling, a method of reducing the emittance of particle beams by thermalisation with a copropagating electron beam. There he lived in the 100-flat building. His portrait decorates the famous Round Table Room in the Institute.
After his death, the Institute was renamed the Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics in his honour.
Budker became one of the founders of Faculty of Physics of Novosibirsk State University in 1961. Budker died in Akademgorodok from a heart attack at 59.
The collection, G. I. Budker: Reflections & Remembrances (edited by Boris North Breizman) was published in 1988 and was later translated into English by James West. Van Dam.
Russian Academy of Sciences. Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics]
He was elected a Corresponding Member of the Siberian Division of the Soviet Academy of Sciences on 28 March 1958 and was promoted to an Academician of the Division of Nuclear Physics on 26 June 1964.