Dmitry I. Abramov
(07.02.1947 - 11.02.2012)
Professor

Dmitry Ivanovich Abramov was born on February, 7, 1947 in Leningrad. After graduation in 1971 from the Physics Department of Leningrad State University he accepted a position of an engineer in the research-and-production association “Positron”. In 1973 he returned to his alma mater and joined the Research Institute of Physics, starting his scientific career as an engineer and eventually becoming a full professor in 2006. During these years D.I. Abramov got his PhD (1977) as well as his Doctor of Science degree (1999). The main research interests of Dmitry Ivanovich can be described as mathematical physics applied to the problems of atomic theory. His early studies concerned the Coulomb two-center problem where he obtained very useful results, including the analysis of the uniform asymptotic expansions (in collaboration with I.V. Komarov and S.Yu. Slavyanov). Later these results were successfully applied by D.I. Abramov in the theory of mu-meson catalysis. Another scientifically sound paper contained an application of the conformal map method to the scattering problem involving a set of static Coulomb centers. This article entered into a series of papers entitled “Harmonic scattering”, for which D.I. Abramov and Yu.N. Demkov were awarded the first prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1995). D.I. Abramov also suggested an absolutely new method of treating the quantum inverse scattering problem. He published more than 80 papers in prestigious scientific journals. Prof. D.I. Abramov paid much attention to teaching, delivering lecture courses and advising students on their qualification works. He was a very sociable person, friendly and always calm, with outstanding sense of humor. We will remember Dmitry Ivanovich as a talented scientist and a great personality.