Famous People with Name Evgeny

Evgeny Postny            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Evgeny Postny: is an Israeli chess player with the title of Grandmaster.In the space of two weeks, the 18-year-old Postny won the 2001 Junior (under 20) Championship of Israel, won the National Open Championship, got his first grandmaster norm and received prize money t

Evgeny Tomashevsky            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Evgeny Tomashevsky: is a Russian chess Grandmaster. In 2001 he won the U18 Russian championship in Rybinsk with 9/10 and in 2004 he became second in the U18 World Youth Chess Championship. In 2007 he became second in the Aeroflot Open.

Evgeny Vladimirov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Evgeny Vladimirov: is a chess Grandmaster from Kazakhstan. Vladimirov took on the computer program Hydra in August 2004 and lost three games and drew one.

Evgeny Mikhailovich Lifshitz            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Evgeny Mikhailovich Lifshitz: was a leading Soviet physicist from a Jewish origin and the brother of Ilya Mikhailovich Lifshitz.Lifshitz is well known in general relativity for coauthoring the BKL conjecture concerning the nature of a generic curvature singularity. As of 2006[update], this is widely regarded as one of the most important open problems in the subject of classical gravitation.With Lev Landau, Lifshitz co-authored an ambitious series of physics textbooks, in which the two aimed to provide a graduate-level introduction to the entire field of physics. These books are still considered invaluable and continue to be widely used. Lifshitz was the second of only 43 people ever to pass Landau's "Theoretical Minimum" examination.

Evgeny Pavlovich Velikhov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Evgeny Pavlovich Velikhov: a physicist and scientific leader in the Russian Federation[1]. His scientific interests include plasma physics, lasers, controlled nuclear fusion, power engineering and magnetohydrodynamics (high-power pulsed MHD generators). He is the author of over 1500 scientific publications and a number of inventions and discoveries.He currently holds the post of president of the Kurchatov Institute (named for Igor Kurchatov) and first Secretary (head) of the Public Chamber of Russia. He is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and has been the vice-president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.