The Budker Institute in Winter

The Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics is one of the major centres of advanced study of nuclear physics in Russia. It is located in the Siberian town Akademgorodok, on Academician Lavrentiev Avenue. A photograph of the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Akademgorodok, Russia. ... A photograph of the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Akademgorodok, Russia. ... Nuclear physics is the branch of physics concerned with the nucleus of the atom. ... Siberian federal subjects of Russia Siberia (Russian: Сиби́рь, common English transliterations: Sibir, Sibir; possibly from the Mongolian for the calm land) is a vast region of Russia and northern Kazakhstan constituting all of northern Asia. ... The Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics in Akademgorodok Akademgorodok (Russian: Академгородо́к) (pop. ...

The institute was founded by Gersh Itskovich Budker in 1959. Following his death in 1977, the institute was renamed in honour of Academician Budker. Categories: People stubs | 1918 births | 1977 deaths | Russian physicists ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ...

Despite its name, the centre was not involved either with military atomic science or nuclear reactors - instead, its concentration was on high-energy physics (particularly plasma physics) and particle physics. In 1961 the institute began building VEP-1, the first particle accelerator in the world which collided two beams of particles. The institute is contributing toward the construction of CERN's Large Hadron Collider, providing equipment including beamline magnets. 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... A 1960s single stage 2MeV linear Van de Graaff accelerator, here opened for maintenance A particle accelerator is a device which uses electric and/or magnetic fields to propel electrically charged particles to high speeds. ... CERN logo CERN is the European Council for Nuclear Research (Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire), the worlds largest particle physics laboratory, situated on the border between France and Switzerland, just west of Geneva. ... The Large Hadron Collider (short LHC) is a particle accelerator and collider located at CERN. It is currently under construction and scheduled to start operation in 2007. ...

The centre now employs over 3000 people, and hosts several research groups and facilities, including the Siberian Sychrotron Radiation Centre.

Directors of the Institute

• 1959-1977 Gersh I. Budker
• 1977- Alexander N. Skrinsky

External links

• Budker Institute's homepage
• Alexandre Telnov's photographic history of the BINP