Professor Leonid I. Manevitch
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OBITUARY
Professor Leonid I. Manevitch Igor V. Andrianov . Oleg V. Gendelman . Margarita A. Kovaleva . Yuri V. Mikhlin . Valery N. Pilipchuk
Published online: 4 November 2020 Ó Springer Nature B.V. 2020
The scientific community lost an outstanding and original scientist, prominent creative and fruitful in the field of Nonlinear Dynamics, Mechanics of Solids, Condensed Matter Physics. After severe illness, Professor Leonid I. Manevitch passed away on August 20, 2020, at the age 82. He worked on scientific problems and proposed new ideas until the very last days of his life. Leonid Manevitch was born on April 2, 1938, in Mogilev (USSR, currently Belarus). His father and mother were physicians. During the Second World War, the family moved out and, after the war, settled in Dnepropetrovsk (now Dnipro). Leonid Manevitch attended his graduate studies at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Dnepropetrovsk State University (DSU) in 1954–1959. After graduating from the DSU summa cum laude, he worked as an aerospace stress engineer and a head of the Stress Analysis Team in the Yangel Yuzhnoye State Design Office (1959–1964), and at the same time, he studied in extramural doctoral study at DSU. He got his PhD degree with a thesis on
I. V. Andrianov RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany O. V. Gendelman Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel M. A. Kovaleva N.N. Semenov Federal Research Center for Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
Y. V. Mikhlin (&) National Technical University «Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute», Kharkiv, Ukraine e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] V. N. Pilipchuk Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
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stability of shells (under supervision by Prof. Yu. A. Shevlyakov) in 1961. From 1964 until 1976, he worked at DSU as an Associate Professor and then as a Full Professor in the Department of Applied Theory of Elasticity led by Academician V.I. Mossakovsky. In 1970, he received the degree of Doctor of Sciences for his thesis on asymptotic and group methods in the mechanics of deformable solids, and later on, in 1973, he received the title of Professor. Since 1976, after moving to Moscow, he worked by special invitation of Nobel Prize laureate N.N. Semenov as a senior research fellow, then as the head of the Physics and Mechanics of Polymers Division of the Institute of Chemical Physics of the USSR (later Russian) Academy of Sciences, and as a senior research fellow during the last years of his life. This Laboratory under his leadership became one of the well-known research teams in the field of solid polymer physics and nonlinear dynamics of molecular systems, which actively cooperates with research centers from different countries. Since 1984, he also worked as a Professor in the Department of Polymer Physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Prof. Manevitch’s scientific activity was related to many areas of mechanics of deformable bodies, nonlinear dynamics and cond
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