Yuri Gulyayev (physicist)

Yuri Vasilyevich Gulyayev (Юрий Васильевич Гуляев) — (born 18 September 1935 in Tomilino, Moscow Oblast) is a Soviet and Russian physicist and inventor, Full Member and Member of the Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences (1992), head of the Semiconductor Electronics chair in the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1971). Yuri Gulyayev works in the field of solid-state physics, radiophysics, electronics, computer science and medical electronics. Gulyayev is a pioneer in the fields of modern physics: acousto-electronics, acousto-optics, spin wave electronics.

In 1995, the International Astronomical Union named the asteroid 1976 YB2 as 6942 Yurigulyaev.

Honours and awards

 * Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd and 4th class
 * USSR State Prize, twice (1974, 1984)
 * EPS Europhysics Prize (1979)
 * Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1985)
 * Order of Honour (2006)
 * State Prize of the Russian Federation (2006)