Vsevolod Feliksovich Gantmakher

In 1959 Gantmakher graduated from Moscow Institute for Physics and Engineering. His candidate and doctoral degrees in physics were earned while working in Kapitza's Institute for Physical Problems. He joined newly established Institute of Solid State Physics in Chernologovka in 1964 and still is working there.

Starting from 1964, Gantmakher is involved into the teaching process, regularly giving lectures and seminars, tutoring students in the laboratory, etc. Since 1989, Gantmakher is editor-in-chief of one of the best known Russian physical journals - JETP Letters. In 1997, Gantmakher became an associate member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

During the first period of his research life, Gantmakher worked in so called fermiology dealing with electrodynamics of the solid state plasma (radiofrequency size effects, ballistic penetration of the ac field inside metals, etc.). His results of this period were summarized in two review papers published in Progr.Low Temp.Phys.5 (ed.C.J.Gorter, 1967) and in Sov.Phys.-Uspechi, 11, 1968 (the second written together with E.Kaner).

Gradually, the center of his interests shifted to studies of electron scattering. This period was terminated by the book "Carrier Scattering in Metals and Semiconductors" (North-Holl., 1987) written together with Y. Levinson. Next Gantmakher's research field was low temperature magnetotransport in photoexcited semiconductors - see review written together with V.N.Zverev in "Landau Level Spectroscopy" (ed. G.Landvehr and E.Rashba, North-Holl.,1991) describing different types of magnetoimpurity resonances. Then Gantmakher became interested in electrons in disordered materials.

Last years, he is working in the field of metal-insulator and superconductor-insulator transitions and is acknowledged as an expert in this field.