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, Tambov Governorate

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, Russian Empire

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 - 1 November 1994, Moscow

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, Russia

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) was a Soviet

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 physicist-theorist who mostly worked in the area of quantum mechanics

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, nuclear physics

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 and particle physics

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  He is particularly known for having proposed the idea of underwater neutrino telescopes in 1960.

Moisey Markov graduated from Faculty of Physics of Moscow University

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 in 1930. He worked at the Institute of Red Professors

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 (1931-1933) and the Faculty of Physics

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 of the Moscow State University

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 (1933-1934). Since 1934 he worked for the Lebedev Physical Institute

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. In 1956-1962 he was the head of the Neutrino

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 Physics Laboratory of the Institute for Nuclear Research

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Markov was a full member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences since 1966 (a corresponding member since 1953). In 1968-1988 he was the Secretary of the Department for Nuclear Physics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Markov was awarded Hero of Socialist Labor

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 title and three Orders of Lenin

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