Professor Lyudmil Vatzkitchev
60 years from creation of Radiophysics and electronics department in Sofia University were completed in 2005. The department is established in 1945 under the name “Applied physics” in the Faculty of physics and mathematics with a goal to ensure the education of the young physicists in the field of the Radiophysics and electronics. The extraordinary professor Emil Djakov is selected as a head of the department. The new department was created as a branch of the Experimental physics department. Professor G. Nadjakov – the head of the Experimental physics department – makes for the initial form of the new department and Professor E. Djakov takes great pains to form its education and science performances.
Professor Djakov own science activity moderates during his specialization in Berlin (Germany) in 1936/37. He develops new methods for measurement the UHF-resistances. After his return in Bulgaria in 1939 he is elected to be an assistant professor and reads the courses of applied physics and physical base of electrical engineering. He works in the area of physics and technics of the magnetrons. His scientific results find a wide reaction among the science populace on the physics in the foreign countries. In 1949 the department of the Applied physics is renamed in Technical physics.
In this report the development of the department in the decades of 1951 to our days is being tracked. The decade between 1951 and 1960 marks the beginning of the organized science work in the department. Her material base is being upgraded endlessly due to the efforts of the assistants K. Stamenov and T. Stoychev. For the course of the electrical engineering and electronics Professor E. Djakov writes two authorial textbooks. That fact represents an exception about the years, when Bulgarian textbooks, exploited in the Faculty of physics could be counted on the fingers of one’s hand. We used as well guidebook for laboratory written from K. Stamenov and T. Stoychev.
The decade in 1961 to 1970 was qualified with regular changes to the lecturer constitution in the department and that make an expansion in the area of the science surveys.
The decade of 1971 to 1980 can be called “a decade of swarming” in the department, because is being qualified with a growth of the scientific area and tasks. That is most major in the area to the quantum electronics. In 1974 the department of technical physics is renamed in Radiophysics and electronics department. In 1978 the group of quantum electronics is separated as self-depended department. With the unexpected death of the Professor Djakov in the same year the university physics and the physics of the Bulgarian Academy of Science lose one of their deans contributed very much to the development of the physics sciences in Bulgaria.
During the time of Professor E. Djakov after the Second World War the Bulgarian physics overgrow in pregnant and institutional plan. This is the time when the administrative heads as a Professor E. Djakov show their ability and tolerance to the variety from science surveys, contribute to the Bulgarian physics and the training of physicist generation. The teachers from the Radiophysics and electronics department will remember always the name of Professor Emil Djakov as a founder of the academic department and the institutions in Bulgarian academy of science with which the department members support many year good professional contacts. The development of our department in the following decades (tracks in the report) became possible due to the solid base situated just from Professor Emil Djakov.
Faculty of Physics, University of Sofia
lyuvats@phys.uni-sofia.bg
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Created: 15 September 2006
Updated: 27 September 2015