Vladimir Kotelnikov
Soviet scientist (1908-2005)
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kotelnikov (Russian: Владимир Александрович Котельников; 6 September 1908 – 11 February 2005) was an information theory and radar astronomy pioneer from the Soviet Union. He was elected a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Department of Technical Science (radio technology) in 1953. From 30 July 1973 to 25 March 1980 Kotelnikov served as chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR.
Career timeline
1926–31 study of radio telecommunications at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University and Moscow Power Engineering Institute, dissertation in engineering science.
1931–41 worked at the MEI as an engineer, scientific assistant, laboratory director and lecturer.
1941–44 worked as a developer in the telecommunication industry.
1944–80 full professor at the MEI.
1953–87 deputy director and since 1954 director of the Institute of Radio-engineering and Electronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IRE RAS).
1970–88 vice-president of the RAS; since 1988 adviser of the presidium.
Achievements
He is known mostly for having discovered, before e.g. Edmund Whittaker, Harry Nyquist, or Claude Shannon, the sampling theorem in 1933 (and hence, in Russian literature, it is known as the Kotelnikov's theorem).
This result of Fourier analysis was known in harmonic analysis since the end of the 19th century and circulated in the 1920s and 1930s in the engineering community.
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