Boris Konstantinov

Boris Pavlovich Konstantinov (1910-1969) was a Soviet physicist who specialized in thermonuclear fuel processing and have written numerous works on acoustics and on both corpuscular and optical plasma diagnostics. He was a graduate of Ioffe Institute. In 1953 he became corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences and by 1960 became its full member. In 1967 he became its Vice-President of the Academy at which position he served till his death in 1969.