Tomsk Puls

A. V. Kozyrev, I. V. Pegel’

Research in a new field of physics (high-current electronics) was started in the 1960s by a team of scientists headed by G. A. Mesyats, a future member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, first, at the Institute of Nuclear Physics at the Tomsk Polytechnical Institute and, then, at the Institute of Atmospheric Optics. This research team was the basis of the Institute of High-Current Electronics of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR established in 1977. The new activities also included various branches of physics, such as the development of methods of generation of superpowered electric pulses, production of fluxes of charged particles and electromagnetic radiation, physics of vacuum and gas discharges, and investigation of the effect of powerful fluxes of particles and energy on matter.

More information on these and other subjects you can find in the printed version of our journal.