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In Celebration

Academician Alexander Ivanovich Leontiev on his 90th birthday

On May 24th, 2017 we will celebrate the 90th birthday of
Academician Alexander Ivanovich Leontiev. In 1950 Alexander
Leontiev graduated from Moscow Aviation Institute, and in 1963
became a Doctor of Science in Engineering. A few years later, in
1965, he became a full Professor. He was elected an Academicianof the Russian Academy of Science in 1991. Professor Leontiev isa leading figure in thermal physics research and in particular inconvective heat transfer and related topics.
Academician Leontiev’s creative work has embraced the mostsignificant period of the development of thermal sciences in theformer Soviet Union and in the Russian Federation. It includes
well-known achievements in such areas as boiling, boundary layer
theory, and combined natural and forced convective heat transfer.
His work at the leading science centres in Novosibirsk and Moscow
has resulted in Academician Leontiev becoming the leader of theentire community of Russian researchers working in the area ofheat transfer. He is Chairman of the National Committee of Heatand Mass Transfer of the Russian Academy of Science and a member of the editorial boards of a number of Russian and Internationaljournals including the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer and the International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer.
Over several decades, Alexander Leontiev has been leading theRussian delegations to numerous international science forums
and has participated in the activities of the International Centrefor Heat and Mass Transfer (ICHMT) as an elected member of theExecutive Committee and Vice President of ICHMT. His incisiveintelligence and natural personal charm, friendliness and an extremely wonderful sense of humour, makes a personal relationship
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with Sasha (as he is called by friends and colleagues from manycountries) not only rich and interesting, but also extremely
pleasant.
Alexander Leontiev has received many high-level scientificawards in the research area of heat transfer. Since 2008, Professor
Leontiev is an elected foreign member of the US National Academyof Engineering. In 2010, he was awarded the Global Energy Prize
for fundamental research in the field of intensification of heattransfer in power plants.
Alexander Leontiev has educated at least two or even three generations of specialists in the science of heat transfer. Under hisleadership, seminars are regularly conducted for young scientists;they are referred to as the ‘‘Leontiev Schools”. Many leading
researchers working in scholarly laboratories all over the world
are proud to call themselves Leontiev’s students. A relationshipwith Alexander Leontiev provides the young researchers much
more than professional knowledge. This relationship aids them inbecoming cultured individuals, in valuing their colleagues, and informing positive human qualities.
We believe that the permanent interest in all facets of the life
and the natural optimism of Alexander Leontiev is a reliable basisof his long and active life for many years. We and many otherfriends and colleagues of Academician Alexander Leontiev wish
him hearty good health, continued creative activity and cheerfulspirit.
Sergey Alekseenko
Oleg Alifanov
Graham de Vahl Davis⇑Leonid Dombrovsky
Richard Goldstein
Kemal Hanjalic
Geoffrey Hewitt
John HowellJohn Lloyd
Wally Minkowycz
John Rose
Terrence SimonEduard Son
Aleksey Varaksin
Natalia Medvetskaya⇑ Corresponding author at: Joint Institute for High Temperatures,
Russian Academy of Science, NCHMT, Krasnokazarmennaya 17A,
Moscow 111116, Russia.
E-mail address: ldombr@yandex.ru (L. Dombrovsky)
Available online 27 February 2017