Vladimir Leonidovich Solovianov
Nikolai Tyurin
Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Moscow Region 142281,Russia
Vladimir L. Solovianov was born in 1940 in the town of Krivio Rog in the Ukraine.
He was graduated from Moscow State University in 1964 and joined the new Institute
for High Energy Physics which was created one year earlier.
The beginning of Solovianoiv's scientific career saw the development of
hodoscopes for the experimental studies of elastic scattering at the U-70 accelerator.
He already contributed to the early measurements (1969) of the diffractive cone for
pp-scattering which showed that the slope is loagrithmically rising.
In the early seventies Vladimir played an essential role in the Soviet-French
polarization experiment HERA, the measurement and analysis of the polarization in
elastic pp and pbar-p scattering and charge exchange processes. In pp elastic scattering
the change of polarization from positive to negative as a function of the momentum
transfer was discovered. This particular phenomenon was very important for the
development of models of binary reactions.
He contributed to the development of cooperation and joint experiments with
Saclay, CERN, and the US labs. The obtained results in these experiments and, in
particular E704 at Fermilab continue to be important for the progress of our field. He
played a key role in the organization of the two Spin Symposia in Protvino in 1986
and 1998.
Valdimir Solovianov also made key contributions in physics proposals and the
preparations of all spin projects at U-70 and UNK. These include PROZA,
NEPTUNE, RAMPEX, and the latest SPIN@U-70.
His creative role in all aspects of physics research and its organization, the very
scientific and friendly atmosphere he always supported, will be remembered by
Valdimir's colleagues.
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