Alexander A. Chernov

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  • Title
    Physicist
  • Email
    chernov2@llnl.gov
  • Phone
    (925) 424-6194
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Research Interests

  • Crystal growth
  • Surface and materials sciences
  • Atomic solid state physics.

Service in International Organizations

  • International Organization of Crystal Growth, President: 2007-current, Vice President: 1977-1983, 1989-1991    
  • Program, Advisory, and Organizing Committees of more than 25 international meetings

Visiting Scientist/Professor

  • Harvard University, Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1965-1966
  • Tokyo University, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tokyo, Japan, 1989
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology, Material Science and  Engineering Laboratory, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, 1992,1993,1994
  • Tohoku University, Institute for Materials Research, Sendai, Japan, 1994
  • Universities Space Research Association, NASA/George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, 1995

Ph.D., Physics Department, Moscow State University, USSR

  • Chernov, A. A., J. J. DeYoreo, L. N. Rashkovich, and P. G.Vekilov, Materials Research Bulletin 29, 927-934 (2004).
  • Chernov, A. A., Protein Crystals and Their Growth, J. Structural Biology 142, 1-21 (2003).
  • Chernov, A. A., Modern Crystallography III, Crystal Growth, Springer Series on Solid State Science, vol. 36, published by Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Tokyo, Part I (1984).
  • Chernov, A. A., Copolymer Chains and Mixed Crystal Growth, Sov. Phys. Uspekhi 4, 116-148 (Uspekhi Fiz Nauk 100 299-327) (1971).
  • Chernov, A. A., Spiral Growth of Crystals, Sov Phys Uspekhi, Uspekhi Fiz Nauk 73, 277-331 (1961).
  • Russian Federation Government Prize in Science and Technology, 1998
  • A.V. Shubnikov Prize of the Institute of Crystallography, inauguration award of 1986 and 1994
  • F.C. Frank Prize of the International Organization of Crystal Growth, inauguration award of 1989
  • Member, USSR/Russian Academy of Sciences, Division of Physics, elected in 1987
  • E.S. Fyodorov Prize of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1983
  • Special Prize of the USSR Academy of Science Presidium for Diamond Synthesis, 1966