P A V E L N I K O L A E V I C H A G A L E T S K I I

( 6 0 t h B i r t h d a y )

Prof. Pavel Nikolaevich Agaletski i DSc. (Eng), state prize winner, ce lebra ted on January 16, 1969 his 60th bir thday and 35 years of his work in the met ro log ica l institutes of our country.

He graduated from the Glukhovo Teachers Training Col lege in 1927, taught in a secondary school, graduated from the physical faculty of the

Kiev State University in 1934, worked as a post graduate student at the VNIIM (All-Union Scient if ic-Research Institute of Metrology), defended his masters dissertation on "Piezoelectr ic methods for measuring instan-

taneous forces" in 1987, defended his doctors dissertation on "Absolute

evaluat ion of the acce lera t ion due to gravity for an in i t ia l point in the USSR" in 1958, and obtained the academic rank of Professor in 1961. These are the main landmarks in the life of this scientist who made a consider- able contribution to the deveIopment of our metrology.

The scient if ic ac t iv i ty of P. N. Agaletski i is ex t remely varied and /t embraces a wide range of met ro logica l and measurement technqiue problems. P .N . Agaletski i carried out research in the f ield of methods and means for precision measurements of frequency, smal l t ime intervals , vokages and capaci tances at a high frequency, and in establishing a state standard of frequency (a group of quartz clocks and means for control l ing the s tabi l i ty of the frequency unit reproduced by the standard). He also

carried out work in the f ield of dynamic measurements, in producingmeth- ods and means for cal ibrat ing tachometr ic and vibrometric equipment, accelerometers , and instruments for measur-

ing instantaneous pressures. He general ized the work in the field of vibrometry, thus making it possible to lay the met ro log ica l foundations for measuring simultaneously two or several mutual ly dependent quantities.

The fundamental met ro log ica l research in determining by means of tl~ree different absotute methods the a c -

ce lera t ion of a freely fa i l ing body (1946-56) was carried out under the guidance and with the direct par t ic ipat ion of P. N. Agaletskii . This work was highly apprecia ted by the Soviet metrologists and geophysicists, as wel l as by the General Assembly of the Internat ional Union of Geodesy and Geophysics.

For his par t ic ipat ion in establishing the state standard of frequency P. N. Agaletski i was awarded a state prize.

The printed works published by Pavel Nikolaevich, whose list contains over 50 ti t les, reflect the results of the work carried out by him or under his leadership in our sc ient i f ic - research metro logica l institutes.

Scient i f ic and organizat ional problems occupy an important place in the ac t iv i ty of P. N. Agaletskii . In 1942-45 on instructions of the Commi t tee of Measures and Measuring Instruments a t tached to the USSR Council of

Ministers he organized in Tomsk on the basis of the met ro log ica l institutes evacuated from Khar 'kov and Moscow

the State Insti tute of Measures and Measuring Instruments ( later the Novosibirsk State Insti tute of Measures and Mea- suring Instruments) and acted as its director. The establishment of this institute was important for preserving uni- form measures in Siberia.

In 1945-46 P. N. Agaletski i was director of the Moscow State Institute of Measures and Measuring Instruments,

In 1949-51 he worked as scient i f ic deputy director of the VNIIM.

In 1952-53 he par t ic ipated in the establishment of the centra l sc ient i f ic- research institute of radio measure- ments (later t h e Al l -Union Scient i f ic-Research Institute of Physicoteehnical and Radiotechnical Measurements). In 1953 he became deputy director of this institute, and then its director from 1953 to 1955. The establishment of this institute provided an important met ro logica l base in our country for measurements in the sphere of t ime and fre- quency, radio, acoustics, and hydroacoustics.

Translated from Izmer i t e t ' naya Tekhnika, No. 2, p. 79, February, 1969.

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At present Pavel Nikolaevich leads the metrologica l department of the above institute and advises on the work

related to the establishment of standards and the improvement of systems for reference measurements, the develop- ment of general met ro logica l problems,and the drafting of basic metrologica l normal iz ing documents.

P. N. Agaletski i pays considerable attention to the training of scientif ic personnel. Many post graduate stu- dents and competitors have successfully defended their masters dissertations under his guidance.

Pavel Nikolaevich part icipates in the work of several scientif ic and technica l councils and commissions, in- cluding the section on "Metrology and precision measurement techniques" of the Scient if ic Council on the Com- plex Problems of "Instrument Making" of the Scientif ic and Technical State Commit tee at tached to the USSR Coun-

c i l on Ministers, the Scientif ic and Technica l Counci l on "Metrology and Construction" of the Commit tee of Stan- dards, Measures,and Measuring Instruments, and the Scientific and TechnicaI Council on the "Problems of mechan i - ca l measurements" of the Ministry of Ins t rument Making. He is an edi tor ia l board member of the journal "Engineer- ing" of the All-Union Institute of Scient if ic and Technical Information of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and a m e m -

ber of the commission on noise and vibrations of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He is president of the Interdepar t - menta l Commission for state testing of vibrat ion-measuring instruments used in thermal energetics, and a member of the expert commission of the Higher Academic Courses.

In celebrat ing the 60th birthday of Professor Pavel Nikolaevich Agaletski i we wish him good health, a long life, and fruitful ac t iv i ty to the benefit of our great motherland.

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