Victor Aleksandrovich Brumberg | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 12, 1933 |
| Nationality | Russian/American |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University Institute of Theoretical Astronomy of Russian Academy of Sciences |
| Awards | USSR State Prize, 1982 Humboldt research award, 1993 Title Honorary Scientist of Russia (by a decree of the President of Russia), 1999 Brouwer Award, 2008 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | Institute of Theoretical Astronomy of Russian Academy of Sciences, 1958-1987 Institute of Applied Astronomy of Russian Academy of Sciences, 1987-2004 |
Victor A. Brumberg (born February 12, 1933) is a Russian theoretical physicist specializing in relativistic celestial mechanics and astrometry. He worked as a chief-scientist at the Institute of Applied Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. He is noted for his work on general relativity applied to celestial mechanics and ephemerides. He is currently living in the United States of America.
Brumberg has served on the scientific committees for projects under the IAU Commission 4: Ephemerides, Commission 7: Celestial Mechanics & Dynamical Astronomy (President), Commission 31: Time, and Commission 52: Relativity in Fundamental Astronomy.[1] He is also a member of the Academy of Europe. Until 2005, he served as Assistant Editor of the Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy Journal. He held visiting positions at the Observatoire de Paris (1991), National Astronomy Observatory of Japan (1992-1993), Tuebingen Technical University (1993-1994), Bureau des Longitudes, and Darmstadt Technical University (2000).[2]
Brumberg has over 100 publications and 6 books, two of which are the highly influential Essential Relativistic Celestial Mechanics (1991) and Analytic Techniques of Celestial Mechanics (1995).[3]
He received the 2008 Brouwer Award from the Division of Dynamic Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society. The Brouwer Award was established to recognize outstanding contributions to the field of Dynamical Astronomy, including celestial mechanics, astrometry, geophysics, stellar systems, galactic and extragalactic dynamics.[3] In 1993, he was visiting professor at the Technische Universität Darmstadt.[4]