Valery Godyak

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Valery A. Godyak
ВАЛЕРИЈ ГОДЈАК
Born (1941-06-08) June 8, 1941 (age 82)
Czernowitz, Ukraine
NationalityRussian
Education Leningrad Technical University (M.S.)
Lomonosov University (Ph.D.)
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Plasma physics
Thesis  (1968)

Valery A. Godyak (born June 8, 1941 in Czernowitz) is a Russian-American physicist who specializes in plasma physics. As a scientist, he made fundamental contributions to the understanding of radio frequency (RF) induced discharges in plasmas as well as in associated nonlinear phenomena. [1] [2] [3] As an industrial physicist, he developed induction lamps such as the Icetron-Endura RF lamp [4] and received honors from companies such as Osram Sylvania and Siemens. [5]

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Early life and career

Godyak received his Engineer-Physicist degree from Leningrad Technical University in 1964. In the same year, he became an assistant professor at Ryazan Radiotechnological University. In 1968, he received his Ph.D. in Plasma Physics at the Lomonosov University in Moscow. He then worked at the Laboratory of Fusion Engineering at the State Institute of Electro-Physical Apparatus in Leningrad, where he was involved in relativistic electron beams, electron optics and accelerator physics. In 1972, he joined Lomonosov University as a group leader for gas discharges with radio waves.

In 1980, he was dismissed on political grounds and worked in auxiliaries, for example as an elevator electrician in a Moscow hospital. [6] In 1984, he joined the United States and became a scientist with the GTE Corporation (a follower of the Bell Telephone Company), following the 1993 takeover of the Lamp Party by Osram at Osram Sylvania. [7]

Honors and awards

Godyak is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the IEEE. [5]

In 2004, he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics with Noah Hershkowitz for "fundamental contributions to the physics of low temperature plasmas, including radio frequency wave heating, sheath physics, potential profiles, diagnostic probes, and the industrial applications of plasmas". [5]

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References

  1. Godyak, Valery A.; Sternberg, Natalia (1990). "Dynamic model of the electrode sheaths in symmetrically driven rf discharges". Physical Review A. 42 (4): 2299–2312. Bibcode:1990PhRvA..42.2299G. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.42.2299. PMID   9904281.
  2. Kolobov, V.I.; Godyak, V.A. (1995). "Nonlocal electron kinetics in collisional gas discharge plasmas". IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. 23 (4): 503–531. Bibcode:1995ITPS...23..503K. doi:10.1109/27.467971. ISSN   1939-9375.
  3. Lister, G. G.; Lawler, J. E.; Lapatovich, W. P.; Godyak, V. A. (2004). "The physics of discharge lamps". Reviews of Modern Physics. 76 (2): 541–598. Bibcode:2004RvMP...76..541L. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.76.541.
  4. Zissis, A. (2004). Light Sources 2004 Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on the Science and Technology of Light Sources. CRC Press. ISBN   978-1-4822-6917-8.
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