Professor Dmitry Panov: From Aviation to Informatics

Affiliation: A. P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: Novosibirsk, Prospekt Akademika Lavrentieva, 6

Valery Shilov

Affiliation: National Research University “Higher School of Economics”
Address: Moscow, Pokrovsky bulvar, 11

Journal name

Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki

Edition

Volume 44 Issue 1

Pages

128-151

Abstract

The article is devoted to Dmitry Yurievich Panov (1904–1975), a mathematician who in the 1930s – 1970s worked for the leading Soviet research and education institutions in the defense and civil sectors. He was one of the pioneers in the aircraft industry, creation of anti-missile defense systems, digital computing technologies and their applications, and engineering psychology. He also developed data support systems for science. Undoubtedly, these were cutting-edge projects, new forms of higher education organization and management that he intuitively felt to be significant. Being an ingenious and creative person, encyclopedically educated and erudite, Panov had no difficulties in engaging in new areas of activities and, even if he had not made major breakthroughs in these areas, he became very well aware of new challenges and tried to organize the teams that were best fit to address the respective tasks. People like him – the erudites, organizers, and communicators – are very valuable for science, being vital in creating scientific environment and atmosphere, conducive to science growth and development. If scientific society is presented as a pyramid, people like Panov would be placed in its central part, forming the link between the base and the top. Our approach to studying Panov’s biography is based on three levels of narration: personal, socioprofessional, and contextual (historical). The sources included the materials from the departmental archives, Panov’s scientific publications, and the recollections of his former colleagues at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the V. S. Semenikhin Research Institute of Automatic Equipment.

Keywords

D. Yu. Panov, history of science and technology, applied mathematics, computer engineering, cybernetics, machine translation, sociology, engineering psychology, Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute, Lebedev Institute of Precise Mechanics and Computer Engineering, All-Russian Institute of Scientific and Technical Information, V. S. Semenikhin Research Institute of Automatic Equipment

Received

31.03.2023

Publication date

31.03.2023

Number of characters

48925

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GOST	Krayneva I., Shilov V. Professor Dmitry Panov: From Aviation to Informatics // Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki – 2023. – V. 44. – Issue 1 C. 128-151 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://vietmag.org/S020596060024517-0-1 (circulation date: 18.05.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S020596060024517-0
MLA	Krayneva, Irina, Shilov, Valery "Professor Dmitry Panov: From Aviation to Informatics." Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki 44.1 (2023):128-151. DOI: 10.31857/S020596060024517-0
APA	Krayneva I., Shilov V. (2023). Professor Dmitry Panov: From Aviation to Informatics. Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki 44(1), pp.128-151 DOI: 10.31857/S020596060024517-0

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