This decision was adopted by the Directorate of the National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute” which is a parent organization of IHEP.

Anatoly Alekseyevich Logunov was born in Obsharovka village, now in Privolzhsky District, Samara Oblast, Russia. In 1951 he graduated from Moscow University where he studied theoretical physics. From 1954 to 1956 he worked in Moscow University, where he was a pupil of the outstanding scientist, Academician N.N.Bogoliubov. Close scientific communication with the Bogoliubov has had a decisive influence on formation of A. A. Logunov. And when in 1956 the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research was opened in Dubna, Bogolyubov, who has headed the Laboratory of theoretical Physics, invited Logunov to accept the position of Deputy. Together they had contributed a lot to the establishment of the LTP JINR.

While working in Dubna, Logunov he built generalized finite multiplicative renormalization groups and functional and differential renormalization group equations of electrodynamics in case of arbitrary calibration. Jointly with Piotr Isayev, Lev Soloviov, Albert Tavkhelidze and Ivan Todorov et al. he derived dispersion relations for different processes of elementary particle interactions, among them the processes of photobirth of pi-mesons in nucleons. Logunov and his colleagues developed the relativistic theory of gravitation (RTG), a theory of gravitation alternative to that of the general theory of relativity.

In 1963 the desire to combine rigorous axiomatic methods with the possibility of dynamic description of processes at high energies led Logunov and his pupils to create the so-called quasipotential method in the relativistic two-body problem. The basic equation of this method, which is called the Logunov-Tavkhelidze equation is a close relativistic analog of the Schrhdinger equation.

At the same time, A.A. Logunov was commissioned to build an extraordinary powerful for that time accelerator of elementary charged particles. In 1967, the successful launch of the world’s largest proton synchrotron in Protvino which was capable to accelerate protons to the record energy of 70 billion electron volts, has agitated the community of physicists.

He became Doctor of Science (Physics and Mathematics) in 1959 and professor in 1961. In 1968 he was elected a corresponding member of The Academy of Sciences of USSR. In 1971 the department of quantum theory and high energy physics was founded on faculty of physics of Moscow University. Anatoly Logunov was the head of this department right from the start at least until 2006. In 1972 Anatoly Logunov was elected an academician in the field of nuclear physics. From 1977 till 1992 he was the Rector of Moscow University, and until 2003 he was a Director of the Institute for High Energy Physics.

From 1998 to 2015 A.A. Logunov was a member of the JINR Scientific Council from the Russian Federation.

The decision on naming IHEP after Logunov will be formalized during the adoption of the new Charter of IHEP.

V.S. Vladimirov, A.A. Logunov, N.N. Bogoliubov, V.A. Ambartsumian, A.N. Tavkhelidze, A.N. Bogoliubov, Dubna, 1979

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