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"Igor' Vasil'evich Novozhilov," Mech. Solids. 41 (2), 158-159 (2006)
Year 2006 Volume 41 Number 2 Pages 158-159
Title Igor' Vasil'evich Novozhilov
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Abstract Igor' Vasil'evich Novozhilov, an outstanding scientist in the field of mechanics, professor, Doctor of Sciences (Physics and Mathematics), suddenly died on January 15, 2006, at an age of 74.

Igor' Vasil'evich Novozhilov was born on December 3, 1931, in the city of Kirov (Pesochnya) of Kaluga Region. After graduating with honor from the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Moscow State University in 1954, he dealt about 10 years with the development of aerospace systems in a research institute of the instrument-making industry. In 1964, he was invited to teach at the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Moscow State University. He was the head of a laboratory at the Institute of Mechanics of the Moscow State University and from 1975 to 1986 the head of the Chair of Theoretical Mechanics at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute. Since 1986 up to the last days of his life he had taught at the Chair of Applied Mechanics at the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Moscow State University

Almost all his theoretical investigations were closely related to industries and practical applications. An outstanding stage of his career at the late 1950s and early 1960s was his participation in the creation of the control system for soft landing of a spacecraft on the Moon surface. He proposed the method of two-stage stability analysis for multi-dimensional systems possessing a symmetry.

He made a great contribution to the development of the general theory of gyroscopic and navigation systems. Using rigorously proved asymptotic methods, he has established boundaries for the applicability of the precession theory of gyroscopes and determined systematic drifts of gyrostabilizers. He has stated the well-posedness conditions for the classical models of mechanics such as rigid bodies, holonomic and nonholonomic constraints, and sliding modes in systems with discontinuous right-hand sides. He has proposed a model of rolling of a deformable wheel which is a generalization of the Carter, Rocar, Fromm, and Keldysh models. He has constructed and validated approximate dynamic models of an aircraft, a spacecraft, a magnetically suspended carriage, transverse vibrations of a railway carriage, the motion of an automobile, three-, four-, and six-degree-of-freedom dynamic test benches, and locomotion of biomechanical objects. He has developed a model of the mass exchange in the human-artificial kidney system that has played an essential role in the creation of the theory of hemodialysis. He has proposed a technique for completing the definition of systems with discontinuous characteristics and has applied this technique to dry-friction systems. He has combined these diverse investigations of mechanical, transport, electromechanical, biological, and medical problems under the badge of the fractional analysis. He has developed a concept that combines the normalizing transformations based on the dimensional analysis and the asymptotic methods of separation of slow and fast motions. This concept provides an effective technique for constructing mathematical models of controlled mechanical systems which are rather lengthy in description. His monograph "Fractional Analysis" has run through several editions in Russian, has been translated into English, and has been widely recognized in the scientific world.

He was a brilliant educator. He delivered interesting bright lectures oriented to the "final goal" for which the formulas and equations are written. He was among the first to utilize computer-based educational technologies in teaching theoretical mechanics at technical universities. His manual "Typical Computer-based Calculations in Theoretical Mechanics" has become a handbook for a great number of teachers in theoretical mechanics in Russia and abroad.

He was the leader of an authoritative scientific school in mechanics. He was the consultant of 4 D.Sc. projects and the supervisor of 18 Ph.D projects.

He was a member of the Russian National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, a member of the Advisory Council on Mathematics and Mechanics of the Higher Attestation Committee, the Chairman of the Committee of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the Development of Terminology in Mechanics of Gyroscopic Systems, a member of the Bureau of the Advisory Council on Mathematics, Mechanics, and Computer Science of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, a member of the Scientific-methodological Council on Theoretical Mechanics of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, and a member of the editorial boards of the journal "Izvestiya RAN. MTT [Mechanics of Solids]" and the book of collected scientific-methodological papers "Theoretical Mechanics."

He was distinguished not only for his encyclopedic broadness of scientific interests but also for his exclusive gifts in the literature and art. He was a great erudite in painting, poetry, and history. He was a brilliant drawer and wrote poetry and prose. He has created original illustrations for scientific and popular science books, talented drawings, and a book of poems and drawings "Without Fear and Shame." He was an author of the books of poems "The Other Facet" and the author of the remarkable historical book "Born in 1921" devoted to hard lives of people who had passed through the World War II.

His multifaceted fruitful activity in science and social life was marked with the award of the State Prize of the USSR (1976), the Lomonosov Prize of the Moscow State University (1998), medals, and honorary titles.

The blessed memory of Igor' Vasil'evich Novozhilov, a talented scientist and teacher, an exclusively modest and charming man, and a genuine patriot will live forever in our hearts.
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