Vladimir Teplyakov
| Vladimir A. Teplyakov | |
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| Born | 6 November 1925 |
| Died | 10 December 2009 (aged 84) Protvino, Russia |
| Nationality | Russia |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions |
Institute for High Energy Physics Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics |
| Known for |
High energy physics Accelerator physics |
| Notable awards |
Lenin Prize (1988) Order of Lenin Order of the October Revolution Order of Glory 3rd Class Order of the Patriotic War 2nd Class Medal "For Valour" Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Medal "For the Capture of Vienna" |
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Teplyakov (Russian: Владимир Александрович Тепляков) (November 6, 1925 – December 10, 2009) was a Russian experimental physicist known for his work on particle accelerators. Together with I.M. Kapchinsky, he invented the principle of the radio-frequency quadrupole (RFQ), which revolutionized the acceleration of low-energy charged particle beams.
V.A. Teplyakov was born in Tambov, Russia. At the age of 17, in January 1943, he was drafted into the Red Army to fight in the Second World War, serving in the 3rd Ukrainian Front. He participated in a number of operations in Right-bank Ukraine, Moldavia and Eastern Europe and was awarded combat orders and medals.
After the war, he graduated from the All-Union Correspondence Polytechnic Institute in Moscow and joined the team of scientists at the Institute of Chemical Physics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences who worked on the large particle accelerator for conversion of uranium-238 into weapons-grade plutonium-239. From 1959 to 1966 he worked at Chelyabinsk-70 to develop a high-current proton linear accelerator for controlled thermonuclear fusion. In mid 60’s, together with G.M. Anisimov, Teplyakov conceived the idea of focusing the charged particle beams by the radio-frequency (RF) accelerating electromagnetic field rather than by solenoid magnets. This work continued at the Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Protvino, where his group moved in 1966 to build the I-100, a 100 MeV Alvarez drift-tube linac, which was an injector to the U-70, a 70 GeV proton synchrotron, the world's largest particle accelerator at that time.
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