Gapontsev Valentin Pavlovich

Gapontsev Valentin Pavlovich

Gapontsev Valentin Pavlovich - Soviet and Russian physicist. He had US citizenship.

Assets

The main assets of Valentin Gapontsev were concentrated:

• electronic technologies (LLC NTO IRE-Polus, International Scientific and Technical Corporation IPG Photonic Corporation).

State

It takes 121st place in the ranking of the Russian-language version of Forbes "The richest businessmen of Russia - 2011." Valentin Gapontsev's fortune is estimated at $800 million ^[1].

It ranks 88th in the ranking of the Russian-language version of Forbes "The richest businessmen of Russia - 2012"^[2].

Biography

Born February 23, 1939 in Moscow, Russia.

Education

1961 - graduated from the Lviv Polytechnic Institute^[3].

1964-1967 - graduate school of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

Career

1961 - engineer in one of the design bureaus of the Ministry of Radio Industry in Lviv.

1967 - Junior Researcher, then Senior Researcher, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

1988 - headed one of the laboratories of the IRE AN.

1991 - together with an employee of the Polyus Research Institute of the Ministry of Electronic Industry Alexander Shestakov, he created LLC NTO IRE-Polus^[4].

1995 - Founder and CEO of IPG Laser GmbH in Germany.

1997 - founded IPG Fibertech S.r.l. in Milan^[5]

1998 - founded IPG Photonic Corporation in Oxford, which became the headquarters of the Transnational IPG Group in 2000^[6].

2006 - took place IPO «IPG Photonic Corporation» (Valentin Gapontsev - the main shareholder) on the NASDAQ exchange, selling 9 million shares at $16.5, on the very first day of trading their value increased to $25.6^[7]

2010 - Member of the Advisory Scientific Council of the Skolkovo Foundation.

2011 - sold to General Electric for $1.5 million an automated system for welding cylinders that are used^[8] high-speed train engines].

Head of the Department of MIPT and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA), Chairman of the Board of Directors and General Director of the International Scientific and Technical Corporation IPG Photonics (occupies 80% of the global fiber laser market^[9]General Director of IRE-Polus. Managing Director of IPG Laser GmbH, President of IPG Photonic Corporation, Chairman of the Board of Directors of IPG Group, Researcher at the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, Head of the Department at MIPT and Warchester Polytechnic Institute. A leading specialist in laser physics and technology, fiber and optoelectronic technologies.

He is a member of the American Optical Society (OSA), the Institute of Electrical and Radio Engineers (IEEE), and the New York Academy of Sciences.

He died in October 2021.

Scientific achievements

His work, carried out since the beginning of the 1990s in LLC NTO IRE-Polus, was based on his own concept of creating optical quantum generators, based on a fundamentally new technological platform. The effectiveness of the system was confirmed by the first scientific results, the reliability of implemented high-tech devices.

With the participation of Valentin Gapontsev, high-efficiency laser phosphate glasses were introduced into mass production, powerful fiber lasers and amplifiers were created, and the production of Russian fibre-optic fixed communication systems was developed and organized.

In 2010, when the 50th anniversary of the creation of the laser was celebrated, Valentin Gapontsev, along with A.M. Prokhorov and N. G. Basov, was included in the list of 28 outstanding world scientists (according to SPIE) in the field of laser physics, technology and technology.

Publications

He is the author of more than 500 scientific publications and patents, as well as a monograph on laser materials.

Titles and awards

1998 - winner of the American Optical Society Prize.

2003 - awarded the Rozhdestvensky Medal for outstanding contribution to the development of modern laser physics and fiber optics.

2006 - winner of the prestigious competition in the United States, held by the auditing company Ernst & Young, and awarded the title "Best Entrepreneur of New England" for 2006. This award was a recognition of outstanding successes in a completely new direction of the laser industry - the development and production of unique fiber lasers and amplifiers, as well as devices and systems based on them.

2010 - awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation for a complex of innovative developments and the creation of high-tech production of fiber lasers and fiber-optic backbone and local communication systems.

2010 - when the 50th anniversary of the creation of the laser was celebrated, Valentin Gapontsev, the only domestic specialist, was included in the list of 28 outstanding world scientists (according to SPIE) in the field of laser physics, technology and technology^[10]

Marital status

Married, son.

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