Mikhail Vasilievich Sazhin

Russian Federation

1951-2023

Obituary:

SAZHIN Mikhail Vasilievich (1951-2023)

Born 28.11.1951, Miass. Graduated from Physics Department of M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University (1975). Staff at Sternberg State Astronomical Institute (SAI) of M.V. Lomonosov Moscow state University since 1978; as a head researcher in the Department of relativistic astrophysics since 2013. Doctor of Physics and Math ematics (1990), Professor (2007), foreign member of the Accademia di Scienze Fisiche e Matematiche della Società Nazionale di Scienze Lettere e Arti in Napoli (2013), member of the scientific councils and editorial boards of the international and russian journals in astronomy. Awarded Lomonosov prize for the cycle of works "The CMB and modern cosmology" (2012) and Shklovsky prize for the cycle of works " The first detection of anisotropy of relic radiation on the Russian satellite Relict” (2020) . Co-chairman of the A. L. Zelmanov Moscow Seminar on gravitation and cosmology. Participator of the discovery of CMB (space experiment Relikt, 1992). Recent data on the CMB form the Standard cosmological model (which is the basis of modern cosmology), determining the quantitative characteristics of the early Universe. Founder of the methodology of the pulsar timing as detector of gravitational waves. Founder of the methodology of study of the nonstationarity of space-time through gravitational microlensing as applied to the problems of astrometry. Together with O. S. Sazhina author of new scientific direction for the search of cosmic strings. Author and lecturer of courses for students of Lomonosov Moscow state University: "General theory of relativity for astronomers" (2008), "Modern cosmology" (2008). Supervisor of 6 PhD, and 5 theses. Advisor of 3 DHDR theses. Author more than 200 scientific and popular scientific papers, including author and coauthor of 6 books and monographs, including: "Modern cosmology in the popular presentation" Sazhin M. V. Izd-vo URSS, Moscow, 2002; "Basics of Modern Cosmology” A. D. Dolgov, Zeldovich Y. B., Sazhin M. V. Editions Frontieres, Gif-sur-Yvette-France, 1990; "Astronomy: century XXI" ed. by V. G. Surdin Izd-vo Vek-2, Fryazino, 2015; “Multichannel Astronomy” ed. by A. M. Cherepashchuk, Izd-vo Vek-2, Fryazino, 2019.

Deceased April 11, 2023.