Yuri Vasilyevich Gulyayev — (born September 18, 1935, Moscow oblast

Moscow Oblast

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) is a Russian

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 physicists and inventor. Full Member

Academician

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 and Member of the Presidium of Russian Academy of Science (1992), head of the Semiconductor Electronics chair in the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1971). Yuri Gulyaev working in the field of solid state physics, radiophysics

Radiophysics

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, electronics

Electronics

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, computer sciences

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 and medical electronics. Gulyaev is a pioneer in the fields of modern physics: acoustoelectronics, acoustooptics, spin wave

Spin wave

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 electronics.

In 1995, the International Astronomical Union

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 named the asteroid

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 1976 YB2 as 6942 Yurigulyaev

6942 Yurigulyaev

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