Fedor Vasil'evich Bunkin (on his 85th birthday)

Academician Fedor Vasil'evich Bunkin, an outstanding physicist and science administrator in Russia, a prominent representative of the Russian school of Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics celebrated his 85th birthday on 17 January 2014. F.V. Bunkin's fundamental works extended the ideas of this school, laying the basis for new directions in laser physics, nonlinear optics and condensed matter physics.