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Fedor Fedorov
Fedor Ivanovich Fedorov (Фёдор Иванович Фёдоров), (June 19, 1911-?? ?? , ???? ) was a famous Belarusian physicist.
His scientific interests ranged from optics and spectroscopy to the theory of elementary particles.
He was born in the village Turez in Novogrudkov county of Grodno district of Belarus. He was a son of village school teachers, his father later became a very famous Belarusian writer Yanka Mavr.
During the Second World War he worked in the city Kiselevsk in Novosibirsk district as an associate professor of Moscow Aviation Institute.
In 1943 he became the dean of the Physics Faculty of Belarusian State University that resumed its work near railroad station Shodnia near Moscow while Belarus was still under occupation. He remained the dean till 1950.
He took and active part in organization of Institute of Physics and Mathematicsof Belarus Science Academy , and became the leader of one of four major laboratories there -- laboratory of theoretical physics (till 1987).
Till the end of his life he was the lecturing professor in Belarusian State University.
He published over 400 research articles.
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