Open AccessYuri I. Galperin (1932–2001)
Author(s) -
Zelenyi Lev,
Muliarchik Tatiana,
Stepanov Vladimir
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2002eo000282
Subject(s) - astronautics , space science , space (punctuation) , physics , meteorology , astronomy , philosophy , linguistics
Yuri I. Galperin, head of the Laboratory of Auroral Physics Phenomena at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, passed away on 28 December 2001 due to a heart attack. He was a pioneer of auroral and upper atmospheric physics and contributed significantly to the development of space plasma physics. He had been an AGU member (SM) since 1974. Galperin authored and co‐authored more than 200 publications in scientific journals and was a co‐author of three monographs on experimental space physics. In addition to AGU, Galperin was a member of many scientific councils in Russia, and he had also been a member of the International Astronomical Union since 1958 and the International Academy of Astronautics since 1975.