Viachelav V. Belyi, also referred to as Slava Belyi (1 August 1945 – 20 May 2020) was a Russian scientist who specialised in physics-thermodynamics, Laureate of a scientist Prize of the Russian Federation (1991, together with Irina Veretennikoff and Yuri Klimontovich), junior, then senior and finally chief scientist at IZMIRAN (1971–2020), collaborator of Nobel prize Laureate Ilya Prigogine in 1980s and 1990s with an external affiliation to the Laboratoire de physique des plasmas at the ULB (Brussels, Belgium).
Since 1982. he maintained professional and personal contacts with Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate Ilya Prigogine.
He received a status of a visiting researcher to Solvay Institute and Centre for Statistical Physics and Plasma at the University Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).
[7] In 2018 V. Belyi published an article in Scientific Reports[8] where he did put under question earlier obtained results on Thomson theorem.
[9] The scholarly debate engendered further attention to the implications for Thomson scattering spectra for inhomogeneous plasmas.