Aleksandr Baldin

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Baldin (Russian: Александр Михайлович Балдин) (February 26, 1926, Moscow – April 29, 2001) was a Soviet and Russian physicist, expert in the field of physics of elementary particles and high energy physics.

He was elected a member of Russian Academy of Sciences and a faculty of Moscow State University.

In 1946, as an excellent student, he was invited to continue his studies at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPI).

After graduation in 1949, he was sent to the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (PIAS), where he later defended his PhD and became a professor.

He was chairman of the Council on Electromagnetic Interactions of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a member of the Bureau of the Nuclear Physics Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, chief editor of the journal Elementary Particles and Atomic Nuclei (EPAN) and “ Letters to EPAN”, the member of the editorial boards of many scientific publications.