Education
Bachelor of Science, physics, Moscow State University, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1955; Doctor of Philosophy, theoretical physics, Moscow Institute for Physical Problems, 1960.
Bachelor of Science, physics, Moscow State University, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1955; Doctor of Philosophy, theoretical physics, Moscow Institute for Physical Problems, 1960.
Head, Plasma Theory Laboratory, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics member, Institute of High-Temperature Physics, Moscow, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1971-1973; director, Institute of Space Reseach, Moscow, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1973-1990; Distinguished Professor of Physics, U. Maryland, College Park, Maryland., since 1990; director, East-West Space Science Ctr, since 1990.