Sergei Aleksandrovich Ambartsumyan (80th birthday tribute)

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 195 KB
• Volume: 66
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-8928
• DOI: 10.1016/s0021-8928(02)00041-2

✦ Synopsis

Academician S. A. Ambartsumyan, the great scientist, developer of innovative research in the field of the mechanics of deformable bodies and one of the founders of the Scientific School of Mechanics in Armenia, has celebrated his 80th birthday. He was born on 17 March 1922 in Aleksandropol' (Gyumri). His father was a lawyer. In 1942, he graduated from the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute, in 1946 he gained his first higher degree, in 1952 he became a Doctor of Technical Sciences and in 1953 he was made a Professor. In 1956 he was elected a Corresponding Member and in 1965 an Academician of the Armenian Academy of Sciences. His working life began in 1940. From 1942 to the present day he has taught in higher educational establishments of Armenia and worked in Armenian scientific research institutes. He was Director of the Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics and the Institute of Mechanics of the Armenian Academy of Sciences. He was elected Secretary of the Department of Physicotechnical Sciences and Mechanics and Vice-President of the Armenian Academy of Sciences. For 14 years he was the Rector of the Yerevan State University, and for 20 years Deputy Chairman of the Armenian Supreme Soviet and a Deputy and Member of the Praesidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet. For over 30 years he has been a member of the Praesidium of the Armenian Academy of Sciences. He is also an Honorary Director of the Institute of Mechanics of the Armenian Academy of Sciences and Honorary President of the Armenian Engineering Academy.

His work on the theory of the strength, stability and vibrations of anisotropic laminated shells and plates, on heteromodulus elasticity theory and on the electromagnetoelasticity of thin bodies is widely 'rPrik1.