Vladimir Fortov

Russian physicist and politician (1946–2020)

Vladimir Yevgenyevich Fortov (Russian: Владимир Евгеньевич Фортов; 23 January 1946 – 29 November 2020) was a Russian physicist and politician who served as director of the Joint Institute for High Temperatures (1992–2013) and as president of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2013–2017). His research was in thermal physics, shock waves, plasma physics, and Black matter.²

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Born Jan 23, 1946, died Nov 29, 2020.¹