Spartak Korenchenko is 95
On 16 September, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Professor Spartak Mikhailovich Korenchenko turns 95.
Spartak Mikhailovich started working in Dubna even before the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research was established ― at the Hydroengineering Laboratory of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (ASU) in 1952 (since 1953 ― the Institute of Nuclear Problems of ASU, since 1956 ― the Laboratory of Nuclear Problems (LNP) of JINR).
In 2016, the newspaper “Dubna: Science, Community, Progress” wrote in the article devoted to the 90th birthday of the scientist about his scientific achievements,
“Spartak Mikhailovich started his scientific career with a series of studies on the interaction between pi-mesons and hydrogen at the LNP cyclotron already constructed at the time. His candidate dissertation was based on this series. An important milestone was the work on physics experiment automation initiated by him in 1958 which entailed the development of one of JINR’s first facilities for track chamber picture processing.
S. M. Korenchenko
Further activities of Spartak Mikhailovich were related to experimental studies of rare pion and muon decays.
S. M. Korenchenko is a founder of a large-scale and important research direction in particle physics, search for and study of rare meson decay processes and interactions aimed at revealing New Physics, phenomena beyond the Standard Model.
S. M. Korenchenko authored more than 90 scientific papers. He has got inventor’s certificates.”
Spartak Mikhailovich was keen not only on physics. Liubov Orelovich wrote in her book “Vysotsky in Dubna”,
“Alexander Galich celebrated his 50th birthday at the nearby cottage. V. I. Furman, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, recalled, “there were some forty people then. They sat even on the floor. And Galich accompanied himself not on the guitar but on the piano.” The owner of the cottage was an LNP researcher, Spartak Mikhailovich Korenchenko. Spartak Mikhailovich recalled, “on 19 October 1968, Galich turned 50, and he celebrated his jubilee at my cottage in the Internatsionalnaya street. He came as usual with Niushenka (he called this way Angelina Nikolaevna) and Mark Donskoy. On the same day, Yuliy Kim arrived on his own. He composed and performed a song as a birthday present.”
Spartak Mikhailovich is a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. He fought in the Far East, was awarded the Medal “For the Victory over Japan” and the Order of the Patriotic War II class.
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