“Chronograph. Time’s Witnesses: Georgy Alexandrovich Chelkov”
Georgy Alexandrovich Chelkov graduated from MSU. At the MSU branch in Dubna, he was taught by B. M. Pontecorvo, M. I. Podgoretskiy, S. M. Bilenky, M. G. Mescheryakov, A. A. Tyapkin. In 1969, G. A. Chelkov started his career at the Laboratory of Nuclear Problems. For over half a century of research at our Institute, Georgy Alexandrovich took part in many noted experiments ― antitritium search, RISK, DELPHI, ATLAS, HARP, BESIII. For many years, Georgy Alexandrovich headed the Experimental Department of Colliding Beams, and he also was a DLNP deputy director of science. At present, he is a chair of the Science and Technology Council (STC) of DLNP and a member of the STC of JINR.
The main direction of Georgy Alexandrovich’s activities was the development of different types of detectors and some experimental facilities on their basis ― from scintillation and Cherenkov detectors, and also streamer chambers, to gas-filled and semiconductor detectors. Note that Georgy Alexandrovich was actively involved in experiments conducted on these facilities. In 2008, he initiated the cooperation between JINR and the Medipix collaboration (CERN) which develops pixel semiconductor detectors for basic and applied research.
G. A. Chelkov contributed a lot to fostering young scientists for work at the Institute. He participated in establishing the fundamental department of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (about one hundred highly-skilled specialists have been educated here). In 1993―2012, he was the first head of this department. Now Georgy Alexandrovich is a deputy head of the Department of Experimental Physics. Three dissertations for the degree of Candidate of Physics and Mathematics were written under his supervision.
Georgy Alexandrovich initiated and in 2010 established together with his colleagues an educational project for schoolchildren “Showers of Knowledge” which was active for almost six years.
