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Academy of Sciences (RAS) and outstanding Russian theoretical physicist, reached his 80th birthday on March 3, 2008. The scientific biography of D V Shirkov began already in his student days at the Department of Physics of Moscow State University (MSU) and is closely connected with the name of his teacher Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogoliubov. The first series of research papers that D V Shirkov started at the Institute of Chemical Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences (AS) and continued at the classified research center in Sarov (formerly Arzamas-16) were focussed on the simplification of the Boltzmann kinetic equation of neutron transfer in complex media. Dmitrii Vasil'evich used these results to work on important applications-oriented projects. D V Shirkov was decorated with an Order of the Red Banner of Labor for taking part in one of themÐ the development of thermonuclear weapons. Another project in which D V Shirkov took part Ð the creation of a nuclear charge Ð was implemented under the guidance of M A Lavrent'ev and received the Lenin Prize in 1958. After 1955, Dmitrii Vasil'evich conducted research in fundamental theoretical physics at the V A Steklov Mathematics Institute of the USSR AS and then at the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics (LTP) of the Joint Institute forNuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna after it was created in 1956. In the mid-1950s, D V Shirkov continued the work begun by N N Bogoliubov on the foundations of quantum field theory; together they created the renormalization group method. The monograph Introduction to the Theory of Quantized Fields by N N Bogoliubov and D V Shirkov became world-famous. Its first edition was published in 1957; it has gone through seven editions both in this country and abroad, but has still remained amust-have on the desktop for many generations of physical theorists. This was the period whenDV Shirkov also worked on the application of the renormalization group method to Bogoliubov's microscopic theory of superconductivity, whose results were included in the bookANewMethod in Superconductivity Theory written with the coauthors N N Bogoliubov and V V Tolmachev and published in 1958. In 1960, Dmitrii Vasil'evich was elected Corresponding Member of theUSSRAcademy of Sciences. Havingmoved to the Akademgorodok in Novosibirsk, he created the Division of theoretical physics at the Institute of Mathematics of the Siberian Branch (SB) of the USSR AS and a chair of theoretical physics at the new Novosibirsk State University. In the same period, D V Shirkov played an active role in organizing the All-Siberian school olympiads and a physics and mathematics boarding school under the auspices of Novosibirsk State University; he also headed the Education Council of the Presidium of the AS SB. In this period, Dmitrii Vasil'evich Shirkov largely focused his attention on the field of the dispersion theory of strong interactions at low energies. Away back in the late 1950s, he suggested at the JINR a method for obtaining integral equations for partial wave amplitudes. The application of this method to hadron physics was summarized in the monograph Dispersion Theories of Strong Interactions at Low Energies by D V Shirkov, V V Serebryakov, and V AMeshcheryakov issued in 1967. This was the time when D V Shirkov devoted much attention to managing science. He headed the Theoretical Physics Council of the USSRAcademy of Sciences SB, which coordinated the work of all physical theorists of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences. Shirkov conducted regular Siberian Meetings on the physics of strong interactions. Nowadays students of Dmitrii Vasil'evich continue to work successfully at the S L Sobolev Institute ofMathematics of the RAS SB and at Novosibirsk State University, as well as at Irkutsk State University and the Irkutsk Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences SB. Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk 178 (3) 331 ± 332 (2008) DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0178.200803f.0331 Translated by V I Kisin PERSONALIA PACS number: 01.60.+q

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