Lykov Alexey Vasilievich - famous Soviet thermal physicist, professor, inventor, academician. In honor of Lykov, one of the thermodynamic criteria of similarity is named: "Lykov's Number".
Biography
The future scientist was born in September 1910 on the twentieth day in the Russian city of Kostroma. After graduating from high school, he entered the Pedagogical Institute of Yaroslavl at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics. Having received a diploma in 1930, he got a job in a drying laboratory. And a year later, Lykov first proved himself as an inventor, he was given the so-called copyright certificate for an apparatus called "Variable Pressure Dryer".
The following year, a young inventor for the first time publishes theoretical scientific material on evaporation surfaces during drying. This work brought recognition to the young researcher among Soviet scientists. Until the mid-thirties, he worked on a method for determining the thermophysical characteristics of wet materials, which would later be named after the scientist.
Career
From 1936 to 1942, the famous scientist advised in the hygrothermal laboratory of the NKLP of the USSR. Combining his own scientific work and government work, Lykov greatly undermined his health. After a long illness and complex surgery, he finally went to bed. But this did not affect his productivity at all. During the recovery period, he wrote two scientific works, one on the physical features of drying processes, and the second on thermal conductivity and diffusion of materials.
In the early forties, Alexei Lykov defended his doctorate at MPEI. After received the title of professor. In the fifties, he worked on freeze-drying research. In 1955, on the basis of his theoretical research, experimental work was carried out and the construction of the first plant with equipment created according to the research of the scientist began.
In the late fifties, Lykov "launched" the Soviet scientific publication Engineering Physics Journal. A talented scientist was engaged in the publication of his brainchild until the end of his life. And in 1959 he became a representative of the Soviet Union in the publishing house of an international scientific journal.
In 1967, for his labors and achievements, he received the Order of Lenin. Three years later he became the owner of the Order of the Red Banner. Alexey Vasilievich paid great attention to international cooperation between scientists. He initiated the conduct of scientific all-Union conferences on heat transfer, which since 1988 have become international and are held regularly every four years.
