Aleksandr Baldin

<p>Aleksandr Mikhailovich Baldin (Russian: Александр Михайлович Балдин) (February 26, 1926, Moscow – April 29, 2001) was a Soviet and Russian <a href="/facts/Physicist/cQcgvSIm">physicist</a>, expert in the field of physics of elementary particles and high energy physics.
</p><p>After finishing the railway technical school, he studied in the <a href="/facts/Russian_University_of_Transport/ensTrCCv">Moscow Institute of Engineers and Transport</a>, followed by a DSc program in <a href="/facts/National_Research_Nuclear_University_MEPhI_(Moscow_Engineering_Physics_Institute)/94h5plBI">Moscow Engineering Physics Institute</a> completing in 1949, when he became a professor in <a href="/facts/Lebedev_Physical_Institute/pV2sbo70">Lebedev Physical Institute</a>. In 1968, he was named the director of Laboratory of High Energy Physics in the <a href="/facts/Institute_for_Nuclear_Research/MNuqcgxj">Institute for Nuclear Research</a> (ОИЯИ) in Dubna, where the Soviet nuclear weapons were developed. He was elected a member of <a href="/facts/Russian_Academy_of_Sciences/RuUqhtFb">Russian Academy of Sciences</a> and a faculty of <a href="/facts/Moscow_State_University/xHPG4oau">Moscow State University</a>. He was the co-designer of the project of synchrophasotron ОИЯИ (1949). He received the <a href="/facts/Lenin_Prize/Yf40Ltcf">Lenin Prize</a> (1988).
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Aleksandr Baldin