Last updated on May 15, 2011

 

VALERIAN I. TATARSKII

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Tatarskii_low.jpgVALERIAN I. TATARSKII was born on October 13, 1929 in Kharkov, USSR. He received the M.S. degree in physics and mathematics from Moscow State University    in 1952, the Ph.D. degree in physics and mathematics from the Acoustical Institute    USSR Academy of Sciences in 1957, and the Doctor of Sciences in physics and    mathematics from Gorky State University in 1964.

From 1953-1956 he was a Junior Scientist with the Geophysical Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences, and from 1956-1959, he was a Junior Scientist with the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences. From 1959-1978 he worked as a Senior Scientist with the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences. He was Head of the Laboratory with the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences from 1978-1990. In 1990 he becomes Head of the Department with the Lebedev Physical Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences. From 1991-2001 he was a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Colorado/CIRES & NOAA/ERL. From 2001 to 2006 he was Senior Scientist at Zel Technology & NOAA/ETL.   From 2006 to the present he has been Senior Research Scientist at Radio-Hydro-Physics, LLC.

He has published more than 130 titles in wave propagation in random and turbulent media, theory of turbulence, quantum and statistical optics, and mathematics.

 

Books and Publications in Reviewed Journals


He published the following books: Wave Propagation in a Turbulent Media (1959 in Russian, 1961 and 1967 in English), The Effect of the Turbulent Atmosphere on Wave Propagation (1965 in Russian, 1971 revised edition in English), and, in co-authorship with S.M. Rytov and Yu. A. Kravtsov, Principles of Statistical Radiophysics (1978 in Russian, 1989 in English).

Dr. Tatarskii is a Corresponding member the Russian (former USSR) Academy of Sciences (1976), Fellow of the Optical Society of America, Member of the USA National Academy of Engineering (1994), Member of New-York Academy of Sciences (1994), Fellow of the Institute of Physics (1999), Associate Editor of the international Institute of Physics journal Waves in Random Media (1991-1998), Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Soviet Physics, Uspekhi (1985-1996), Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, and a consultant of the Great Russian (former Soviet) Encyclopedia. He was the USSR State Prize winner (1990) and winner of the Max Born Award of the Optical Society of America in 1994. He was a chair of two International meetings in Wave Propagation in Random Media (Tallinn, 1989, and Seattle, 1992). 

Draft of the paper: Use of the 4/5 Kolmogorov equation for describing some characteristics of fully developed turbulence

Paper: Radar measurements of dispersion of surface waves

Draft of the paper: Semi-inversion method for rough-surface scattering

Paper: Theory of Single Scattering by Random Distributed Scatterers

Paper: Equations for the description of wave scattering by multi-valued random surfaces

Some photos

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Glenwood Springs, Colorado.           

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Sunset in Honolulu.

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     Ford Creek in Vail, Colorado.

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Ford Creek, Vail Colorado

HaleAkale

Cave in Glenwood Springs   

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View from the summit of Haleakala (Maui)      

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