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'''Anatoly Alekseyevich Logunov''' ({{langx|ru|Анатолий Алексеевич Логунов}}; December 30, 1926 – March 1, 2015) was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist, academician of the [[USSR Academy of Sciences]] and [[Russian Academy of Sciences]].<ref name=ras>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ras.ru/win/db/show_per.asp?P=.id-69.ln-ru|title=Логунов А.А. - Общая информация|trans-title=Logunov A. A. - General information|language=ru|publisher=[[Russian Academy of Sciences]]}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=October 2016}}<ref name=a80>{{cite web|url=http://www.phys.msu.ru/rus/news/archive/20061230001/|title=80 лет академику Анатолию Алексеевичу Логунову|trans-title=80th Anniversary of Academician Anatoli Alekseyevich Logunov|date=30 December 2006|language=ru|access-date=2011-10-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029061346/http://www.phys.msu.ru/rus/news/archive/20061230001/|archive-date=2014-10-29|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was awarded the Bogolyubov Prize in 1996.

== Biography ==
Anatoly Logunov was born in Obsharovka village, now in [[Privolzhsky District, Samara Oblast]], [[Russia]]. In 1951 he graduated from [[Moscow University]] where he studied theoretical physics. From 1954 to 1956 he worked in Moscow University,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ras.ru/news/shownews.aspx?id=d3949a4b-7f14-479e-bb51-4959377164de|title=Академику Логунову Анатолию Алексеевичу - 85 лет!|trans-title=Academician Anatoly Logunov is 85!|language=ru|date=30 December 2011|publisher=[[Russian Academy of Sciences]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402143353/https://www.ras.ru/news/shownews.aspx?id=d3949a4b-7f14-479e-bb51-4959377164de|archive-date=2 April 2015}}</ref> later worked at [[Joint Institute for Nuclear Research]] (Dubna). He became [[doktor nauk]] in 1959 and [[professor]] in 1961.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.interfax.ru/russia/427422|title=Скончался бывший ректор МГУ, ученый-физик Анатолий Логунов|trans-title=Former rector of Moscow University physicist Anatoly Logunov died|language=ru|date=2 March 2015|publisher=Interfax}}</ref> In 1968 he was elected a corresponding member of [[Russian Academy of Sciences|The Academy of Sciences of USSR]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://publ.lib.ru/ARCHIVES/L/LOGUNOV_Anatoliy_Alekseevich/_Logunov_A.A..html|title=Логунов Анатолий Алексеевич|trans-title= Anatoly Alekseyevich Logunov|publisher=Публичная библиотека ["Public library"]|language=ru}}</ref> In 1971 the department of quantum theory and high energy physics was founded on faculty of physics of Moscow University. Anatoly Logunov was the head of this department right from the start at least until 2006.<ref name=a80/> In 1972 Anatoly Logunov was elected an academician in the field of [[nuclear physics]].<ref name=ras2>{{cite web|url=http://www.ras.ru/win/db/show_per.asp?P=.id-69.ln-ru.dl-.pr-inf.uk-12|title=Историческая справка|trans-title=Historical note|language=ru}}</ref> From 1977 till 1992 he was the Rector of Moscow University. Anatoly Logunov died on 1 March 2015 in Moscow, Russia. He was buried at [[Troyekurovskoye Cemetery]] in Moscow.

==Research==
Logunov made a notable contribution to elementary particle physics<ref>{{cite book|title=The theory of gravity|author =А. А. Logunov|place=Moscow |publisher=Nauka|year=2001|isbn=978-5-02-022699-9|others=Transl. by G. Pontecorvo}}</ref><ref>{{Citation
|author-first=S.S.
|author-last=Gershtein
|title =To the memory of A. A. Logunov: General relativity theory and the relativistic theory of gravity
|journal =Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
|volume =191
|issue=2
|pages = 631–634
|year =2017
|doi =10.1134/S0040577917050014
|bibcode=2017TMP...191..631G
|s2cid=125228803
}}</ref> and quantum field theory.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Logunov |first1=A. A. |last2=Tavkhelidze |first2=A. N. |year=1962 |title=Quasioptical approach in quantum field theory |journal= Il Nuovo Cimento|volume= 29|issue= 2|pages= 380|doi= 10.1007/BF02750359|place=Dubna|bibcode=1963NCim...29..380L |s2cid=122305175 }}</ref> In 1956 he built generalized finite multiplicative [[renormalization group]]s and functional and differential renormalization group equations of electrodynamics in case of arbitrary calibration.<ref name=a80/><ref>{{Cite journal|author =А.А.Логунов|title=Об одном обобщении ренормализационной группы|trans-title=On a generalization of renormalization group|language=ru|journal=ЖЭТФ|issue=30|year=1956|pages=793}}</ref> Jointly with [[Piotr Isayev]] (Russian: Пётр Степанович Исаев), Lev Soloviov (Russian: Лев Дмитриевич Соловьев), [[Albert Tavkhelidze]] (Russian: Альберт Никифорович Тавхелидзе) and Ivan Todorov (Bulgarian: Иван Тодоров) et al. he derived dispersion relations for different processes of elementary particle interactions, among them the processes of photobirth of <math>\pi</math>-mesons in nucleons.<ref>{{Cite journal|author =A.A.Logunov |author2=L.D.Soloviev |author3=A.N.Tavkhelidze |title=Nucl.Phys|volume=4|year=1957|pages=427}}</ref> He studied [[Bell's spaceship paradox]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.ihep.su/library/pubs/prep1996/ps/96-55.pdf|author =С.С.Герштейн |author2=А.А.Логунов|title=Задача Дж.С.Белла|trans-title=Bell's problem|language=ru|place=Протвино|date=1996|pages=12}}</ref> the ideas of [[Henri Poincaré]].<ref>{{cite book|title=On the articles by Henri Poincare "On the dynamics of the electron"|author =А. А. Logunov|others=Transl. by G. Pontecorvo|place=Dubna |publisher=JINR|year=2001|isbn=978-5-85165-669-9|edition=3}}</ref>

===Relativistic theory of gravitation===
After studying works of Poincare, Lorentz, Hilbert and Einstein in great detail, Logunov and his colleagues developed the relativistic theory of gravitation (RTG), a theory of [[gravitation]] alternative to that of the [[general theory of relativity]].<ref name="Logunov">{{Cite arXiv|last=Logunov|first=A. A.|date=2002-10-02|title=The Theory Of Gravity|eprint=gr-qc/0210005}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Logunov|first1=A. A.|last2=Mestvirishvili|first2=M. A.|date=1986-01-01|title=Relativistic theory of gravitation|journal=Foundations of Physics|language=en|volume=16|issue=1|pages=1–26|doi=10.1007/BF00735177|issn=0015-9018|bibcode=1986FoPh...16....1L|s2cid=119850482}}</ref> RTG is constructed in the framework of the special theory of relativity. It asserts that gravitational field, like all other physical fields, develops in Minkowski space, while the source of this field is the conserved energy-momentum tensor of matter, including the gravitational field itself. This approach permits constructing, in a unique and unambiguous manner, the theory of gravitational field as a gauge theory. Here, there arises an effective Riemannian space, which literally has a field nature.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Vlasov|first1=A.A.|last2=Logunov|first2=A.A.|last3=Mestvirishvili|first3=M.A.|date=1984-12-01|title=Theory of gravitation based on Minkowski space and the principle of geometrization|journal=Theoretical and Mathematical Physics|language=en|volume=61|issue=3|pages=1167–1169|doi=10.1007/BF01035000|issn=0040-5779|bibcode=1984TMP....61.1167V|s2cid=120802729}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Logunov|first1=A.A.|last2=Mestvirishvili|first2=M.A.|date=1984-12-01|title=Relativistic theory of gravitation|journal=Theoretical and Mathematical Physics|language=en|volume=61|issue=3|pages=1170–1183|doi=10.1007/BF01035001|issn=0040-5779|bibcode=1984TMP....61.1170L|s2cid=125421891}}</ref> Unlike General Relativity (GR), according to which space is considered to be Riemannian owing to presence of matter and gravity is considered a consequence of space-time exhibiting curvature, the RTG gravitational field has spins 2 and 0 and represents a physical field in Faraday-Maxwell spirit. In RTG, unlike GR, the energy-momentum and the angular momentum conservation laws are fulfilled. Moreover, analyses of the development of a homogeneous and isotropic Universe within RTG leads to the conclusion that the Universe is infinite, and that it is "flat". It evolves cyclically from a certain maximum density down to a minimum and so on. Thus, no pointlike Big Bang occurred in the past. There existed a state of high density and high temperature at each point in space. The theory also predicts the existence in the Universe of a large hidden mass of "dark matter" and impossibility of infinite gravitational collapse (no black holes).<ref name="Logunov"/><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Kiselev|first1=V.V.|last2=Logunov|first2=A.A.|last3=Mestvirishvili|first3=M.A.|date=2010-07-01|title=The physical inconsistency of the Schwarzschild and Kerr solutions|journal=Theoretical and Mathematical Physics|language=en|volume=164|issue=1|pages=972–975|doi=10.1007/s11232-010-0077-4|issn=0040-5779|bibcode=2010TMP...164..972K|s2cid=121514544}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Gershtein|first1=S. S.|last2=Logunov|first2=A. A.|last3=Mestvirishvili|first3=M. A.|date=2009-12-12|title=Gravitational collapse is impossible in the relativistic theory of gravity|journal=Theoretical and Mathematical Physics|language=en|volume=161|issue=2|pages=1573–1580|doi=10.1007/s11232-009-0144-x|bibcode=2009TMP...161.1573G |s2cid=119415795|issn=0040-5779}}</ref>

==Positions==
*Director of the [[Institute for High Energy Physics]] (1963—1974 and 1993—2003)
*Scientific director of the [[Institute for High Energy Physics]] (1974–2015)
*Vice-president of [[Russian Academy of Sciences|Academy of Sciences of USSR]] (26 November 1974&ndash;19 December 1991)
*Rector of [[Moscow State University]] (1977—1992)
*Deputy of the [[USSR Supreme Soviet]] (1979–1989)
* Candidate member of the [[CPSU Central Committee]] (1981–1986)
* Member of the [[CPSU Central Committee]] (1986)
*Head of editorial board of a series "Materials to bibliography of scientists (Russian: "Материалы к библиографии ученых")<ref name=ras2/>

==Awards and recognition==

=== Orders and medals ===
The incomplete list follows.
* [[Hero of Socialist Labour (USSR)|Hero of Socialist Labour]] (1980)
* [[Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"]] (2nd degree, 2002)
* Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (3rd degree, 1995)
* [[Order of Lenin]] (1971, 1975, 1986)
* [[Order of the Badge of Honour]] (1962)
* [[Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"]] (1970)

=== Prizes ===
* [[Lenin Prize]] (1970)
* [[USSR State Prize]] in the field of engineering (1973, 1974)
* Bogolyubov Prize (1996)
* [[Russian Federation Presidential Certificate of Honour]] (2012)

Anatoly Logunov was elected a doctor emeritus of [[Humboldt University of Berlin]], [[Comenius University in Bratislava]], [[University of Havana]], [[Charles University in Prague]], [[Sofia University]], [[University of Helsinki]] and a number of universities of Japan, full professor of Department of theorerical physics of Institute of Fundamental Research ([[Molise]], Italy).<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/internationalwho2004ond|url-access=registration|quote=fundamental research Molise.|title=The International Who's Who 2004|publisher=Europa Publications|page=[https://archive.org/details/internationalwho2004ond/page/1021 1021]|isbn=978-1-85743-217-6|year=2003}}</ref> He is a foreign member of Academy of sciences of Bulgaria (1978), Academy of sciences of Eastern Germany (1978), Academy of sciences of Georgia (1996).

== Works ==
* {{Cite book|author =A. A. Logunov|title=The Theory of Gravity|place=Moscow|publisher=Nauka|year=2001|pages=255|isbn=978-5-02-022699-9}}
* {{cite arXiv |eprint=gr-qc/0210005|last1= Logunov|first1= A. A.|title= The Theory of Gravity|year= 2002}}
* {{Cite book|author1=N. N. Bogoliubov |author2=A. A. Logunov |author3=I. T. Todorov |year=1975|title=Introduction to Axiomatic Quantum Field Theory. Reading|place=Mass.|publisher=W. A. Benjamin, Advanced Book Program|isbn=978-0-8053-0982-9}}.
* Bogolubov, N.N., Logunov, A.A., Oksak, A.I., Todorov, I. (1990) General Principles of Quantum Field Theory.

==References==
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==External links==
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