Krokhin Oleg

Krokhin Oleg, [b. March 14, 1932, Moscow – d. December 20, 2022, ibid.], physicist, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1967), Professor (2000), Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2000), Foreign Member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (2002). He graduated from the Faculty of Physics at M. Lomonosov Moscow State University (1955). In 1956–1959, he worked as an engineer at the nuclear center in the city of Snezhinsk (Russia), and subsequently at the P. Lebedev Physical Institute (FIAN; 1994–2004 – Director). At the same time, he served as a professor in the Department of Solid State Physics and Nanosystems and the Department of Semiconductor Quantum Electronics at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute.

His primary field of research was the physics of lasers and plasma. Under the leadership of N. Basov, he worked on the creation of the first laser (1961) and substantiated the feasibility of laser thermonuclear fusion (1962); he established a technological laboratory for the first high-power installations and corresponding targets for laser thermonuclear fusion. Krokhin was awarded the Lenin Prize (1964) and the USSR State Prize (1982).