Obituary of Yuri Andreevich Osipyan

The Pugwash community sends its condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Acad. Yuri Osipyan.

The Russian Pugwash Committee under the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, with deep condolences, informs you about the death of Academician Yuri Osipyan - famous Russian scientist, specialist solid state physics, former Vice President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, member of the USSR Parliament and Chair of the Russian Academy of Sciences Center in Chernogolovka.

Acad. Osipyan was a prominent public figure, Chairman of the Committee of Scientists for disarmament and arms control, as well as member of the Presidium of the Russian Pugwash Committee and participantof 38th Pugwash Conference in Dagomys (1988).

Acad. Yu. Osipyan died on September 10, 2008 at the age of 77.

On behalf of the Russian Pugwash,

Mikhail A. Lebedev

Acad. Osipyan, Yurii Andreevich

Awards and academic status

• Second Class Order for outstanding public service, 1999, Russia
• Hero of Socialist Labor, 1986, USSR
• 2 Lenin Order, 1981, 1986, USSR
• 2 Order of the Red Banner of Labor, 1971, 1975, USSR
• Simon Bolivar Order, 1990, Columbia
• M.V. Lomonosov Big Gold Medal from Russian Academy of Sciences, 2005, Russia
• P.N. Lebedev Gold Medal from Russian Academy of Sciences, 1984, USSR
• Gold Medal and Karpinskii prize from Federal Republic of Germany, 1988

Fellowship:

• Fellow pf the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Foreign fellow of National Academy of Science of Bulgaria
• Foreign fellow of National Academy of Sciences of Hungary
• Foreign fellow of National Academy of Sciences of Poland
• Foreign fellow of National Academy of Sciences of Czechia
• Fellow of National Engineering Academy of USA
• Fellow of International Academy of Astronautic

Scientific interests:

• Investigation of the influence of quantum effects on kinetics of diffusion-free phase transitions in crystals
• Investigation of the interaction of electrons with extended defects in crystals (discovery of the photoplastic effect: the study of the occurrence of charge on dislocations in A2B6 semiconductors; the study of the occurrence of “dangling” valence bonds in dislocation cores in silicon; the study of electron spin resonance and spin dependent recombination on dislocations. For the work in the field of dislocation physics Prof. Yury Osipyan and Prof. Peter Hirsch (Oxford University) were awarded M.V.Lomonosov Big Gold Medal from the Russian Academy of Sciences (2005).
• Investigation of the influence of a magnetic field on plastic deformation in semiconductors and in plastically deformed crystals
• Investigations of fullerenes and molecular crystals

Committees

President of the Scientific Council in solid state physics, RAS; member of the International Committee COSPAR; member of the Council of the European physical society; President of the National Committee of Russian Crystallographers; fellow of many foreign academies of Sciences.

1990-1994 – President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IU PAP); 1988-1991 – vice President of the USSR Academy of Sciences Chairman of the Committee of Russian Scientists for Darmament and Arms Control (1989-2008), Pugwashite since 1986, and member of the Russian Pugwash Committee since 1988.