Lev Mitrofanovich Barkov (Russian: Лев Митрофанович Барков; October 24, 1928, in Moscow – February 9, 2013,[1] in Novosibirsk) was a Russian physicist, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (since 1984),[1] Professor at the Novosibirsk State University (since 1973) and Laureate of the 1989 USSR State Prize.
He graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1952 with a dissertation on classified neutron research, continued from then at the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy.
A few years later, the Kurchatov Institute sent Barkov as part of the Soviet delegation to the 1955 UN conference in Geneva on "Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy".
[2] Since 1967 he worked at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics within the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian: Сибирское отделение Российской академии наук CO PAN) in Novosibirsk, Russia.
From 1976 to 1979, Barkov served as the Dean of the Faculty of Physics of the Novosibirsk State University.