Background
Kovalev, Vladimir Alexander was born on September 19, 1936 in Riga, Latvia. Son of Alexander Ivan and Galina Pavel (Nazarova) Kovalev.
Kovalev, Vladimir Alexander was born on September 19, 1936 in Riga, Latvia. Son of Alexander Ivan and Galina Pavel (Nazarova) Kovalev.
Degree, Technology School, Riga, Latvia, 1950-1954; degree in Radio Engineering, Electrotechnical Institute, Leningrad, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1954-1960; Doctor of Philosophy in Geophysics, Main Geophysical Observatory, 1973.
Engineer, senior research scientist, scientific manager, Main Geophysical Observatory, Leningrad, Russia., 1960-1991; visiting research scientist, United States Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Monitoring Sys. Laboratory, Las Vegas, since 1991. Scientific adviser The Research and Production Amalgamation Zenith, Moscow, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1981-1991.
Member Optical Society American, International Society for Optical Engineering.
Married Galina AlexanderKostina Kovaleva. Children: Sergei, Alexander.