Grigory Vladimirovich Domogatsky 15.01.1941–17.12.2024
Grigory Vladimirovich was a permanent leader, ideological inspirer, and organizer of his life’s main project – deep-underwater neutrino telescope at Lake Baikal. This unique experiment captivated many people with its beauty, grandiosity, romance, and scientific potential and became the destiny for many generations of physicists and engineers.
Starting his work on this project in 1980 at the suggestion of Academicians M. A. Markov and A. E. Chudakov, Grigory Vladimirovich showed some outstanding qualities: ability to inspire colleagues, consistency, adherence to principles, and deep understanding of how to solve scientific, technical, and organizational problems along with incredible firmness and determination in achieving goals. It is these traits that allowed developing and constructing the world’s first deep-underwater neutrino telescope NT200 during the hardest time for our country. Over decades, he supervised the work on the ice and preparation of the experiment for the whole year.
The new stage of the telescope development started with the construction of the Baikal-GVD (Gigaton Volume Detector) facility in 2013–2014. Colleagues respectfully and warmly associated the name of this facility with his name – Grigory Vladimirovich Domogatsky. What started as a daring dream became the largest neutrino telescope of the Northern Hemisphere – an instrument which the whole country is proud of. The new telescope has already produced and is producing the results revealing the mysteries of the Universe and its evolution.
Grigory Vladimirovich headed this outstanding project till the last days of his life. His passing is a grievous loss for the Baikal-GVD international collaboration and world science. We ought to do everything for the project to develop and allow new scientific discoveries to be made.
The Directorate and staff members of the Laboratory of Nuclear Problems of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research express the deepest condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues in connection with the demise of Grigory Vladimirovich Domogatsky, a Soviet and Russian scientist, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Head of the Laboratory of High Energy Neutrino Astrophysics of INR RAS, a close friend and kind person.