Dmitri Ivanenko

Dmitri Ivanenko (Russian: Дми́трий Дми́триевич Иване́нко, Ukrainian: Дми́тро Дми́трович Іване́нко) (July 29, 1904, Poltava, present-day Ukraine – December 30, 1994, Moscow), Professor of Moscow State University (since 1943), made a great contribution to the physical science of the twentieth century, especially to nuclear physics, field theory (physics), and gravitation theory.

His outstanding achievements include:

• the Fock-Ivanenko coefficients of parallel displacement of spinors in a curved space-time)(1929);

• the Ambartsumian-Ivanenko hypothesis of creation of massive particles (1930);

• the proton-neutron model of atomic nuclei (1932);

• the first shell model of nuclei (1932, in collaboration with E. Gapon);

• the first model of exchange nuclear forces (1934, in collaboration with I. Tamm);

• the prediction of synchrotron radiation (1944, in collaboration with I. Pomeranchuk);

• the theory of hypernuclei (1956);

• the hypothesis of quark stars (1965, in collaboration with D. Kurdgelaidze);

• the gauge gravitation theory (1983, in collaboration with G. Sardanashvily).

Dmitri Ivanenko published more than 300 scientific works including 6 monographs and 11 volumes edited.