Nikita Moiseyev
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Nikita Nikolayevich Moiseyev (Russian: Никита Николаевич Моисеев) (23 August 1917 – 29 February 2000) was a prominent Russian mathematician, full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (later of Russia). His fields of study included applied mathematics, solid state dynamics in liquids, systems analysis, control of the artificial space objects, dynamics of biosphere and its stability (including consequences of nuclear war — "nuclear winter"). Since 1956 till his death worked at Dorodnicyn Computing Centre. N.N. Moiseev organized the Russian Section of Green Cross International and became its first President. Nominating him for 1994 Global 500 Roll of Honour UNEP stated: "He is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, whose spectrum of interests and activities brought him from computing military missile trajectories to mathematical modelling of the pernicious effects of a large scale nuclear war, to his current involvement in environmental activities aimed at protecting future generations."
External links
- [photoarchive Nikita Moiseev]
- [List of publications by N.N. Moiseev]
- [UNEP Global 500 Roll of Honour/Laureates for Environmental Achievement]
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