[vsnet-chat 7737] Yuri Sergeevich Efimov (died 21.10.2011)

[Ivan Andronov]

On October 21, 2011, died Yuri Sergeevich Efimov - a leading researcher, a great scientist, poet, a true Russian intellectual and remarkable person.
 
His diploma was based on observations using the "Shain camera" at the Cat Mountain, Crimea. After graduating from the Sternberg Astronomical Institute of the Moscow State University, he began his work in the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in 1958. More than half a century he  successfully worked in the Laboratory of Physics of Stars and Galaxies, starting as a lab assistant to a leading researcher. Yuri Sergeevich was one of those who stood at the origins of polarimetry in astrophysics. The State Prize in the team of collaborators in the field of science and technology in 2010 was a legitimate award.

In the ADS, the list of his works (Efimov, Yu.) contains 269 articles. They were devoted to magnetic and non-magnetic cataclysmic variables, Mira-type stars, active galactic nuclei and other leading directions.

With many talents, Yuri was a center of cultural life of the Departments and of the Observatory, his beautiful poems decorated many cultural events and were published in a book and in press.

Tragic death stopped his activity. The project of a spectropolarimeter orphaned; extensive archives of Nikolai Mikhailovich Shakhovskoj (1931-2011)  remained untreated; Yuri Sergeevich will not see the printed version of the "Selected Works of Academician G.A. Shain", which he initiated.

All who knew Yuri Sergeevich Efimov, who was infinitely devoted to our science and the observatory, will always keep on him a good and blessed memory.

(translated from Russian)

Leisurely is flight of Time
All days and nights so much alike,
The Time gives us a strong invoice
For every moment and the choice.

We always are in debt to Time.
And my credit was spent, was fine.
I can't return this debt, when live, 
Since Time appointed to me...

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Russian version (based on the info from the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory)
http://www.realsky.ru/community/uavso/viewpost/1661

The photo
http://uavso.pochta.ru/Yu.S.Efimov(1935-2011).jpg

The address for condolences:
the scientific secretary of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory
alex-baklanov at mail.ru