Background
Okun, Lev Borisovich was born on July 7, 1929 in Sukhinichi, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Son of Boris Grigorievich Okun and Bella Romanovna Ginzburg.
Okun, Lev Borisovich was born on July 7, 1929 in Sukhinichi, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Son of Boris Grigorievich Okun and Bella Romanovna Ginzburg.
Diploma in physics, Moscow Engineering Physical Institute, 1953. Postgraduate, Institute Theor. and Experimental Physical, Moscow, 1954—1956. Doctor of Philosophy, Institute Theor. and Experimental Physical, 1956.
Doctor of Science, Joint Institute Nuclear Research, Dubna, 1962.
Scientist Institute of Science Information of Academy of Sciences Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, Moscow, 1953—1954. Research scientist Institute Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 1956—1976, head laboratory elementary particle theory, since 1976. Member science policy committee European Organization of Nuclear Research, Geneva, 1981-1986.
Member science policy committee SSC Laboratory, Dallas, 1989-1993. Member extended science council Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany, 1992-1997. Loeb lecturer Harvard University, 1989.
Lee Page lecturer Yale University, 1989. Regents professor University California, Berkeley, 1990. Buhl lecturer Carnegie Mellon University, 1991.
Visiting professor European Organization of Nuclear Research, Geneva, 1992. Fermi lecturer Scuola Normale Super. Pisa, 1993; Schroedinger professor, Vienna, 1994.
AUI Distinguished lecturer Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1995. Keynote speaker major international conferences particle physics.
Author 5 books. Contributor over 250 papers to professional journals.
Member International Science Foundation (board directors 1993-1997, co-chairman Moscow advisory committee 1992-1997), Russian Academy of Sciences (correspondent 1966-1990, academy 1990, bureau nuclear part division 1990-2002, physical science division since 2002, Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Landau Golden medal 2003), Academia Europea, New York Academy (honorary 1993), The International Association for the Promotion of Co-operation with Scientists from the New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (council scientists 1993). Fellow Institute Physics.
Married Erika Glebovna Gulyaeva Okun, December 31, 1953. Children: Olga, Inna, Boris.