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Gersh Itskovich Budker (Герш Ицкович Будкер), also named Andrey Mikhailovich Budker, (May 1, 1918 – July 4, 1977) was a Soviet physicist, specialized in nuclear physics and accelerator physics. His father has been killed by the Ukrainian nationalists in Derazhnia shortly after his birth. He grew up in his aunt Miriam home in Shargorod, and later rejoined his mother in Vinnitsa.
He was elected a Corresponding Member of the Siberian Division of the Soviet Academy of Sciences on March 28, 1958, and was promoted to an Academician of the Division of Nuclear Physics on June 26, 1964. He is best known for his invention in 1968 of electron cooling, a method of reducing the emittance of particle beams by thermalisation with a copropagating electron beam.
Academician Budker was the founder (in 1959) and first Director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Akademgorodok, Russia. His portrait decorates the famous Round Table Room in the Institute. After his death, the Institute was renamed the Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics in his honour. Budker died in Akademgorodok from a heart attack at 59.
Budker's life and works were celebrated in a collection of essays by his colleagues, including Pyotr Kapitsa, Lev Landau, and Andrei Sakharov, and two by Budker himself. The collection, G. I. Budker: Reflections & Remembrances (edited by Boris N. Breizman) was published in 1988 and was later translated into English by James W. Van Dam.
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Gersh Itskovich Budker's Timeline
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May 1, 1918
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Murafa, Sharhorods'kyi district, Vinnyts'ka oblast, Ukraine
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| 1977 |
July 4, 1977
Age 59
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Akademgorodok, Novosibirsky District, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia (Russian Federation)
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