Ivan Zh. Petkov – Physicists

Created 23.2.2021
Updated 20.2.2025

Biography
Ivan Zhelyazkov Petkov
(1932 – 1995)

Born in Sliven

Education

He studied physics at the Sofia University (1956)

Ivan Zhelyazkov Petkov specialized in Moscow State University "M. Lomonosov" (1962-1970), where he defended PhD (1966)

Doctor of Physical Science ScD (1976)

Research

In Dubna, he described theoreticaly reaction of nuclear fusion

In Bulgaria, he investigated heavy ions and theory of field density

Professional Experience

He has been elected professor (1983)

Scientific secretary of Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy

Deputi director of the BAS United Center of Physics

Ivan Zhelyazkov Petkov organised first bulgarian nuclear physics school in Primorsko (1973)

He initiated annual nuclear theory seminar in Gyulechitsa in 1980 and headed it up to 1995

University Professor

Ivan Zhelyazkov Petkov headed Physics Department at the Shumen University

He lectured the cours for nuclear reaction theory at the Sofia University

Publication

A. Antonov, P. Hodgson, I. Petkov, Nucleon Density and Momentum Distributions in Nuclei, Clarendon Press, Oxford (1988)

I. Petkov, M. Stoitsov, Nucleon Density Functional Theory, Clarendon Press, Oxford (1991)

A. Antonov, P. Hodgson, I. Petkov, Nucleon Correlations in Nucli, Springer, Berlin (1993)

Reference

Professor Ivan Zhelyazkov Petkov

Професор Иван Желязков Петков, 40 години Институт за ядрени изследвания и ядрена енергетика, БАН (2012) с. 189-191