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Soviet engineer (1908–2005)
Vladimir Kotelnikov
Владимир Котельников
Kotelnikov in 2003
BornVladimir Aleksandrovich Kotelnikov
6 September 1908
Kazan, Kazan Governorate, Russian Empire
Died11 February 2005(2005-02-11) (aged 96)
Moscow, Russia
NationalityRussian
Known forSampling theorem

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kotelnikov (Russian: Владимир Александрович Котельников; 6 September 1908 – 11 February 2005) was an information theory and radar astronomy pioneer from the Soviet Union. He was elected a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Department of Technical Science (radio technology) in 1953. From 30 July 1973 to 25 March 1980 Kotelnikov served as chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR.

Career timeline

  • 1926–31 study of radio telecommunications at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University and Moscow Power Engineering Institute, dissertation in engineering science.
  • 1931–41 worked at the MEI as an engineer, scientific assistant, laboratory director and lecturer.
  • 1941–44 worked as a developer in the telecommunication industry.
  • 1944–80 full professor at the MEI.
  • 1953–87 deputy director and since 1954 director of the Institute of Radio-engineering and Electronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IRE RAS).
  • 1970–88 vice-president of the RAS; since 1988 adviser of the presidium.

Achievements

He is known mostly for having discovered, before e.g. Edmund Whittaker, Harry Nyquist, or Claude Shannon, the sampling theorem in 1933 (and hence in Russian literature it is known as the Kotelnikov's theorem). This result of Fourier analysis was known in harmonic analysis since the end of the 19th century and circulated in the 1920s and 1930s in the engineering community. He was the first to write down a precise statement of this theorem about signal transmission. He also was a pioneer in the use of signal theory in modulation and communications.

He is also a creator of the theory of optimum noise immunity. He obtained several scientific prizes for his work in radio astronomy and signal theory. In 1961, he oversaw one of the first efforts to probe the planet Venus with radar. In June 1962 he led the first probe of the planet Mercury with radar.

Kotelnikov was also involved in cryptography, proving the absolute security of the one-time pad; his results were delivered in 1941, the time of Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, in a report that apparently remains classified. In this, as with the above-mentioned sampling theorem, he and Claude Shannon in the US reached the same conclusions independently of each other. For his achievements, Kotelnikov was awarded the IEEE 2000 Gold Medal of Alexander Graham Bell and the honorable IEEE Third Millennium Medal. Prof. Bruce Eisenstein, the President of the IEEE, described Kotelnikov as follows: "The outstanding hero of the present. His merits are recognized all over the world. In front of us is the giant of radio engineering thought, who has made the most significant contribution to media communication development".

Honours and awards

References

  1. Kotelnikov VA, On the transmission capacity of "ether" and wire in electrocommunications, (English translation, PDF), Izd. Red. Upr. Svyazzi RKKA (1933), Reprint in Modern Sampling Theory: Mathematics and Applications, Editors: J. J. Benedetto und PJSG Ferreira, Birkhauser (Boston) 2000, ISBN 0-8176-4023-1.
  2. Kotelnikov VA, The Theory of Optimum Noise Immunity (monograph), Russia 1956, US 1959
  3. Evans, J. V.; Brockelman, R. A.; Henry, J. C.; Hyde, G. M.; Kraft, L. G.; Reid, W. A.; Smith, W. W. (1965). "Radio Echo Observations of Venus and Mercury at 23 cm Wavelength". Astron. J. 70: 487. Bibcode:1965AJ.....70..486E. doi:10.1086/109772.
  4. Moore, Patrick (2000). The Data Book of Astronomy. New York, NY: CRC Press. p. 483. ISBN 0-7503-0620-3.
  5. chapter 5
  6. Sergei N Molotkov (Institute of Solid-State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow region, Russian Federation) (22 February 2006). "Quantum cryptography and V A Kotel'nikov's one-time key and sampling theorems". Physics-Uspekhi. 49 (7). Institute of Solid-State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow region, Russian Federation: 750–761. Bibcode:2006PhyU...49..750M. doi:10.1070/PU2006v049n07ABEH006050. S2CID 118764598.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) PACS numbers: 01.10.Fv, 03.67.Dd, 89.70.+c and openly in Russian Квантовая криптография и теоремы В.А. Котельникова об одноразовых ключах и об отсчетах. УФН
  7. "The Origin Story of the Sampling Theorem and Vladimir Kotelnikov". Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  8. Bissel C, "The Sampling Theorem", Communications Engineer, July/July 2007, IET, United Kingdom ISSN 1479-8352.
  9. "Kotelnikov Awarded Alexander Graham Bell Medal" (PDF). August 2000.
  10. Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Volume 1. New York, NY: Springer. p. 223. ISBN 3-540-00238-3.
Awards
Preceded byDavid Messerschmitt IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal
2000 		Succeeded byNot awarded
(Joachim Hagenauer, 2002)
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