Leonid Rudakov

Leonid Rudakov received his Masters degree from Moscow Institute of Physics and Engineering in 1956 and began his career in Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, where he remained till 1998. He received his Ph. D. in physics in 1961. He was the Head of the Applied Physics Department of the Russian Research Center “Kurchatov Institute” for more than 25 years, as well as professor of physics of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He is recipient of the Russian State Prize in 1981 and 1987, and the Einstein Fellowship in Weizmann Institute, Israel. He has been a consultant in the development of the bright X-ray sources for the inertial confinement fusion program at Univ. of Nevada, Reno and Sandia National Lab. His current research interest is the physics of the plasma turbulence in laboratory and space.