Sep 8 2008
Springer editorial board member Alexander G. Litvak will receive the 2008 Kenneth J. Button Prize which is administered by the Institute of Physics in London. He is awarded the prize for his outstanding contributions to research on plasma physics and the generation and amplification of coherent millimeter wave, terahertz and infrared radiation. Moreover, he is singled out for his scientific and technical applications in this field.
The Kenneth J. Button Prize consists of a bronze medal, a certificate and a cash prize of £ 2000. It will be presented at the 33rd International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz 2008) which will take place in Pasadena, California, from 15 to 19 September 2008. Being the winner of this prestigious award, Litvak has also been invited to hold a plenary lecture at the Conference on 17 September 2008.
Alexander G. Litvak was born on 17 November 1940 in Moscow. He started his career as a radiophysicist researcher at Gorky State University in 1962. After earning his doctorate in physics and mathematics in 1977, he worked as Deputy Director of Science at the Institute of Applied Physics (IPA) at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 2003 he is the Director of the IPA.
Litvak is an editorial board member of Springer's International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves which is the official journal of the IRMMW-THz. Starting in 2009, the journal will be published with the name Journal of Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves. Litvak's research interests include plasma physics, radiophysics, high-power electronics and nonlinear dynamics of wave processes. He teaches courses in plasma physics at N.I. Lobachevsky State University in Nizhni Novgorod, Russia and has published more than 200 scientific papers.
The Kenneth J. Button Prize was established in 1990 by the International Organizing Committee of the IRMMW-THz and was first called "The Infrared and Millimeter Wave Prize". In 1991 it was renamed in honor of the founder of the Conference, Kenneth J. Button. The prize is awarded annually in recognition of "outstanding contributions to the science of the electromagnetic spectrum."