Emory Bellard, American college football coach (Texas A&M University, Mississippi State University), creator of wishbone offense, died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis he was , 83.

Emory Bellard  was a college football coach died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis he was , 83.. He was head coach at Texas A&M University from 1972 to 1978 and at Mississippi State University from 1979 until 1985. Bellard died on February 10, 2011 after battling Lou Gehrig's disease since the fall of 2010.^[1]
Bellard is a member of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame. He was considered to have had one of the most innovative offensive minds in football and is credited for inventing the wishbone formation.

(December 27, 1927 – February 10, 2011)

 Early life

A native of Luling, Texas, Bellard was one of twelve children. His father was a geologist and driller who arrived in Central Texas in the late 1920s to take part in the emerging oil boom.^[2] Bellard graduated from Aransas Pass High School and went on to attend the University of Texas at Austin, where he played his freshman year under coach Dana X. Bible. Bellard broke his leg during his sophomore season and later transferred to Southwest Texas State (now Texas State University–San Marcos).

Coaching career

High school

Bellard was a high school head coach for 21 seasons where he achieved a record of 177–59–9 and won three state titles. During his time as a high school coach, he explored the idea of running an offense out of a three-back formation.
Bellard began coaching at Ingleside High School, a Class B school in Ingleside, Texas. He guided the school to two consecutive regional wins (as far as Class B football went) in 1953 and 1954. He was then hired to succeed Joe Kerbel at Breckenridge High School, then a state powerhouse in the second highest UIL classification. Under coach Kerbel and his predecessor Cooper Robbins Breckenridge won three 3A state championships in 1951, 1952 and 1954. Bellard continued that winning tradition with state titles in 1958 and 1959.
In 1960, Bellard was selected over Gordon Wood to replace Bob Harrell as head coach at Central High School in San Angelo, Texas. San Angelo Central was playing in the highly competitive District 2-4A, nicknamed the "Little Southwest Conference", against perennial state champions like Abilene and Odessa Permian. Bellard amassed a 59–19–2 record at San Angelo Central, winning a 4A state championship in 1966. He then left the high school ranks for the University of Texas at Austin.
In 1988, Bellard returned to the high school level, coaching Spring Westfield High School near Houston, Texas to a 41–22–5 record over six seasons.

College

Texas

In 1967, Bellard was hired as the linebackers coach at the University of Texas at Austin and was moved to offensive coordinator in 1968. It was at this time that he developed and implemented the wishbone formation, a system that was inspired by the variations of the Veer developed by Homer Rice and run by Bill Yeoman at the University of Houston.^[3]

Texas A&M

Bellard became head coach at Texas A&M in 1972, taking over head coaching duties from Gene Stallings. In his seven years at Texas A&M, he finished with a record of 48–27 and three top-15 finishes.
Acting as his own offensive coordinator, Bellard hired a couple of former high school football coaches to assist him as backfield coaches, including Gil Bartosh (1973) and Chuck Moser (1974–1978). Both Bartosh and Moser had won Texas state championships. In 1975, however, Bellard hired Tom Wilson away from Jim Carlen's Texas Tech coaching staff to serve as the Aggies' offensive coordinator. For the defensive department, Bellard hired Melvin Robertson, one of the top defensive coaches, away from Bill Yeoman's coaching staff at the University of Houston. Robertson became defensive coordinator, and among his assistants were R. C. Slocum and Dan LaGrasta.
Bellard's first two seasons at Texas A&M were difficult, as his Aggies finished 3–8 and 5–6, respectively. In 1974, with a pair of his own recruiting classes suited to run the Wishbone formation, the Aggies went 8–3, then followed it up with a couple of 10–2 seasons, including a pair of wins over Royal and the Longhorns and three consecutive bowl games. After starting 1978 season 4–0, Bellard resigned mid-season after two consecutive losses: 33–0 to Houston and 24–6 to Baylor.

Mississippi State

After A&M, Bellard spent seven seasons as head coach at Mississippi State University. His best years as the Bulldogs head coach were in 1980 and 1981, when his team finished 9–3 and 8–4, respectively.

Head coaching record

College

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/Playoffs	Coaches#	AP°
Texas A&M Aggies (Southwest Conference) (1972–1978)
1972	Texas A&M	3–8	2–5	T–7th
1973	Texas A&M	5–6	3–4	6th
1974	Texas A&M	8–3	5–2	T–2nd		15	16
1975	Texas A&M	10–2	6–1	T–1st	L Liberty	12	11
1976	Texas A&M	10–2	6–2	3rd	W Sun	8	7
1977	Texas A&M	8–4	4–4	5th	L Bluebonnet
1978	Texas A&M	4–2*	1–2*
Texas A&M:		48–27	27–20	*Bellard resigned after 6 games
Mississippi State Bulldogs (Southeastern Conference) (1979–1985)
1979	Mississippi State	3–8	2–4	8th
1980	Mississippi State	9–3	5–1	3rd	L Sun		19
1981	Mississippi State	8–4	4–2	3rd	W Hall of Fame Classic	17
1982	Mississippi State	5–6	2–4	8th
1983	Mississippi State	3–8	1–5	8th
1984	Mississippi State	4–7	1–5	T–9th
1985	Mississippi State	5–6	0–6	10th
Mississippi State:		37–42	15–27
Total:		85–69
National Championship         Conference Title         Conference Division Title
#Rankings from final Coaches' Poll. °Rankings from final AP Poll.

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Claus Helmut Drese, German theatre and opera administrator died he was , 88.

Claus Helmut Drese  was a German opera and theatre administrator, and author died he was , 88..

 (25 December 1922 - 10 February 2011)

Early career

Drese led the theatre in Heidelberg from 1959 to 1962. From 1962 to 1968 he was director of the Wiesbaden state theatre and gained prominence by inviting several theatre companies from Eastern Europe. In 1968 he began his work in Cologne where he first collaborated with Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. Then he was called to lead the Zurich opera house and gained world wide fame with a cycle of Monteverdi's operas conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt and staged by Ponnelle.

Vienna State Opera

In 1984 Austrian culture minister Helmut Zilk designated Drese as director of the Vienna State Opera in Vienna. Drese began his tenure in 1986 and chose Claudio Abbado as the State Opera's music director. In the following five years the State Opera experienced a very fruitful period. Abbado conducted both new productions and revivals, among them Un ballo in maschera (staged by Gianfranco de Bosio, designed by Emmanuele Luzzati), L'Italiana in Algeri (staged and designed by Ponnelle), Carmen (revival of the 1978 Franco Zeffirelli-production), Pelléas et Mélisande (staged by Antoine Vitez and designed by Yannis Kokkos), Il viaggio a Reims (staged by Luca Ronconi and designed by Gae Aulenti), Don Carlo (staged and designed by Pier Luigi Pizzi), Don Giovanni (staged by Luc Bondy, with Ruggero Raimondi as the Don), Le nozze di Figaro (staged by Jonathan Miller). Drese initiated cycle of all major Mozart-operas.
Crucial was Drese's engagement of important conductors who had never held the baton at the State Opera before, such as Harnoncourt (Idomeneo in 1987 was regarded as a sensation, followed by Die Zauberflöte staged by Otto Schenk in 1988, Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Così fan tutte in 1989), Colin Davis (Werther staged by Pierluigi Samaritani), Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Seiji Ozawa (Eugene Onegin in 1988; a critically acclaimed production with Mirella Freni and Nicolai Ghiaurov).

Criticism, dismissal and aftermath

Though Drese's term was internationally acknowledged as a very successful one, he was heavily criticized for his politics by parts of the Viennese press, especially by Wilhelm Sinkovicz of Die Presse. They accused him of focusing on star-studded performances and neglecting the repertory. In June 1988, just days after the heavily acclaimed first night of Pellèas et Mélisande, then social-democratic culture minister Hilde Hawlicek met with Drese. She told him that his contract was not to be prolonged after 1991 and presented him his successors, Eberhard Wächter and Ioan Holender. Drese contemplated about resigning immediately but finally chose to fulfill his contract. He continued his way of managing the State Opera.
His final premiere in June 1991 was Der ferne Klang by Franz Schreker, conducted by Gerd Albrecht and staged by Jürgen Flimm. Though a triumphant and acclaimed staging, Der ferne Klang was among the many new productions of the Drese era that were chucked out by his successors (such as Pelléas et Mélisande, Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro, La clemenza di Tito, Khovanchina, Iphigénie en Aulide, Il viaggio a Reims, Werther). Drese's ideas to secure the State Opera's independence from the other state theatres were realized years later by his successor Holender. Also Drese's decision to establish longer running series of performances, earlier disputed by his successors, was ultimately adopted by Holender.

Bibliography

• Drese, Claus Helmut (1984). Theater, Theater... Vorträge, Aufsätze, Kommentare eines Intendanten. Zürich: Atlantis-Musikbuch. ISBN 3-254-00109-5.
• Drese, Claus Helmut (1993). Im Palast der Gefühle: Erfahrungen und Enthüllungen eines Wiener Operndirektors. München: Piper. ISBN 3-492-03695-3.
• Drese, Claus Helmut (1999). aus Vorsatz und durch Zufall: Theater- und Operngeschichte(n) aus 50 Jahren. Köln: Dittrich. ISBN 3-920862-24-4.
• Drese, Claus Helmut (2002). Nachklänge: fünf Künstlerschicksale; Erzählungen. Köln: Dittrich. ISBN 3-920862-44-9.

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Saad El Shazly, Egyptian military leader died he was , 88

Saad Mohamed el-Husseiny el-Shazly  was an Egyptian military personality. He was Egypt's chief of staff during the October War. Following his public criticism of the Camp David Accords, he was dismissed from his post as Ambassador to Britain and Portugal, then sent into exile in Algeria.
He was the untold hero on the Egyptian side of the 1973 October War, also known as the Yom Kippur War, being the mastermind of the successful Egyptian attack on the Israeli Bar-Lev line of defence.

(1 April 1922 – 10 February 2011)

Background

El Shazly was born in the city of Basyoun in the Al Gharbiya Governorate, to a landed family from Shobratana in the Nile delta. His grandfather fought in the Khedive Ismail Pasha's campaign in Sudan, where he died. His uncle, ِAbdel Salam El ShazlyPasha, a Member of Parliament, Minister of Awqaf, Founder and first Minister of the Social Affairs Ministry, Governor of Behera and Cairo, was an outspoken critic of the King's policies. Members of the family participated in the Egyptian Revolution of 1919.

Military career

El Shazly joined the Military Academy and was commissioned. He first gained his reputation as an outstanding soldier in 1941. During the Western Desert Campaign, British forces together with Egyptian forces were facing the Germans. When the British/Egyptian High Command issued the order to retreat, the young lieutenant Shazly stayed behind to destroy equipment in the face of an advancing German army. Until 1948 he served in the King's Guard, and participated in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
El Shazly founded the paratroopers in Egypt in 1954 and was commander of the first paratrooper battalion in the Egyptian army. In 1960 he headed the first United Arab Forces in the Republic of the Congo (Leopoldville) as part of the United Nations forces. He was Defence Attaché in London 1961-1963; Commander of Special Forces 1967-1969; Commander of the Red Sea District 1970-1971; and on May 16, 1971 he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces, a post he held until December 13, 1973.
El Shazly distinguished himself in 1967 when he headed the Shazly Group; a special forces task force tasked with guarding the middle part of the Sinai. On the night of June 5, with communication cut between himself and the Egyptian High Command, he decided to manoeuvre his forces, positioned twenty kilometres from the Israeli border, across the border and into Israel itself. Shazly positioned his forces five kilometres east of the border in the Negev desert^{[citation needed]}, in an area surrounded by mountains that provided his small force of 1,500 men and one battalion of 30 tanks protection from the Israeli Air Force, which had full air superiority. Between 6 and 7 June minor skirmishes had ensued between Shazly's troops and Israeli forces at long ranges. So far, he had suffered negligible casualties. Shazly managed to establish communications with general headquarters in Cairo on the afternoon of June 7 (the Sinai command had been withdrawn), and he received the order to withdraw. It was only then that he became aware that nearly all friendly forces had withdrawn from the Sinai. Aware of Israeli air superiority, Shazly began moving his force at sunset. That night there was a full moon, and this facilitated the withdrawal, since the group's vehicles would not use their headlights to prevent discovery by Israeli forces. The task force moved over 100 kilometres westwards through the night. At dawn however on June 8, Israeli aircraft conducted an air strike against the group, mainly targeting tanks and vehicles. It was in this air strike that Shazly's forces suffered almost all of their casualties; there were no anti-aircraft weapons with which the troops could defend themselves save for a number of light machine guns. The group managed to enter the Sinai Khatmiya Pass, after which Israeli air attacks ceased. Along its march to Ismailia, the group came across burnt out vehicles and tanks that had been hit by the Israeli Air Force along the roads along which Egyptian forces had retreated. The group managed however to pick up a number of soldiers, along the way, some of whom were wounded. Before sunset on June 8, Shazly's forces crossed the Suez Canal at Ismailia, being the last Egyptian military unit to do so. Overall the unit had suffered losses at a casualty rate of around 15%, although this was because other sub-units had suffered much higher losses, in particular the tank battalion, which had lost 80% of its tanks. The vast majority of these losses were due to Israeli air strikes on June 8. He remained with his unit on the west bank of the canal until June 11, with the task of defending against an Israeli crossing in his sector.^[3]
On June 12, Shazly was appointed to a position under whom Egypt's special forces (Al-Sa'iqa, literally lightening) and paratroopers would be under a unified command (previously both had been under separate commands). This mixed force of special forces and paratroopers would carry much of the burden of the War of Attrition, conducting around 80% of the raids, ambushes and sabotage missions carried out by the Egyptian Army across the Suez Canal in the Sinai. It was a company of commandos (numbering 30) that defended Port Fouad against Israeli forces in the aftermath of the Six Day War. In consequence, Port Fouad and its vicinity remained the only part of the Sinai to remain in Egyptian hands.^[3]
Shazly then assumed command of the Red Sea sector from 1970 to 1971, following Operation Rooster 53. The Red Sea sector was almost 200,000 square kilometres (one fifth of Egypt's total size). Shazly was confronted with the task of defending against enemy airborne commando operations, which were conducted at night, but he had at hand less than 20,000 troops to guard the entire Red Sea sector. Rather than spread them throughout the sector, making them vulnerable to the enemy, he opted to concentrate them in specific locations; Safaga, Hurghada, Ras Ghareb, Al-Quseir and Za'farana. The areas around them and between these concentration areas; devoid of military targets of any significance, were left open for the enemy. Shazly also created observation posts on the coasts, manned by five lightly armed soldiers with the task of reporting enemy air activity. Two hours before sunset, these observation teams would abandon their posts and move to another location to avoid enemy attacks, then return in the morning.
As the Egyptian Army's Chief of Staff in the run up to the October War he was responsible for the successful breaching of Bar Lev Line and the crossing of the Suez Canal. His plan was based on preventing the IDF from using its air force in any confrontation with his ground forces due to the superiority of that IDF air force compared to the Egyptian at that time, which was proved in all previous wars, so his plan was to maintain his forces within the Egyptian air defensive umbrella which covered approximately 10 miles to the right of the Suez canal. That plan was executed more than successfully with losses on the Egyptian side far less than he expected and the Egyptian ground forces captured the 10 miles as planned.
During the early days of the war, the Syrian side was under heavy pressure from the IDF, so president Hafez Al-Asad made an explicit request to Anwar Sadat to advance the Egyptian forces deep into Sinai as an attempt to release the pressure on the Syrian side. Shazly said it was a wrong decision as it would not release the pressure on the Syrian side and would subject the Egyptian forces to danger. Sadat did not listen to him and secretly dismissed him, the advance resulted in the loss of some 250 Egyptian tanks without any progress on the Syrian side.^[4]

On October 19, 1973, After the IDF crossed the Suez Canal into Egypt, Sadat sent Shazly to the front to assess the situation. Sadat, in his autobiography, claimed that when he visited the Command Headquarters with General Ismail, he found Shazly collapsed.^[5] Sadat used the words, "nervous wreck".^[6] Shazly said that the disaster had struck and that Egypt have to withdraw from Sinai. Sadat immediately relieved Shazli and appointed El Gamasy for fear of panic among the high command (Dismissal was not made public).^{[7][8][9][10]} Saad El Shazly has denied Sadat's claims however, stating that he never suggested a withdrawal of all forces from the Sinai, but only suggested the withdrawal of four armored brigades.^[11] Another source also mentions that Shazly only suggested the withdrawal of four armored brigades, and makes no mention that he was removed from his position as Chief of Staff.^[12] Abdel Ghani El Gamasy, whom Sadat claims was appointed Chief of Staff, seconds Shazly's account that he only proposed the withdrawal of four brigades, and he denies Sadat's claim that Shazly was a nervous wreck. El Gamasy also makes no mention that he was appointed Chief of Staff, or that Shazly was removed from his position.^[13] It is worth noting that Sadat reported the entire incident only after Shazly became his political opponent.^[14]

Removal from military

In 1973, at the pinnacle of his military career, General Shazly was removed from military service by President Anwar Sadat and appointed Ambassador to Britain and later Ambassador to Portugal.
In 1978 General Shazly sharply criticized the Camp David agreement and publicly opposed it. As a result, he was dismissed from his post and forced into exile. There he wrote this book, his account of the war, for which he was tried by a military tribunal in absentia and without legal representation. He was sentenced to three years in prison. The charges were writing this book without first getting permission from the Egyptian Ministry of Defence, a charge he admitted to in the press. A second charge of allegedly revealing military secrets in his book, he vehemently denied.
In 1992 he returned to Egypt where he was arrested and served out his prison sentence.
El Shazly died on 10 February 2011 at the age of 88.

Positions held &Medals

• Commander of the first Paratoops Battelion in Egypt(1954 - 1959)
• Commander of the United Arab forces in UN mission to Congo (1960 - 1961)
• Military attache in London (1961 - 1963)
• Commender in Infantary (1965 - 1966)
• Commender of Special forces (Commandos & Paratroopers) (1967 - 1969)
• Head of Red sea military area (1970 - 1971)

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Michael Harsegor, Israeli historian died he was , 86.

Michael Harsegor was an Israeli historian and a professor of history at the Tel Aviv University. Harsegor's expertise was in the history of Europe in the late Middle Ages.^[1]

(15 March 1924 – 10 February 2011)

 Biography

Harsegor was born Michael Goldberg in Bucharest into a Jewish family who were refugees from the October Revolution in Russia who settled in Romania. Early on, Harsegor's parents had the desire to give him a Western education and therefore his family moved to France. The economic crisis of 1929 damaged his father's business and therefore in 1933 his family returned to Romania. Harsegor's family intended to immigrate to the Land of Israel but this proved impossible during World War II. His entire family perished in the Holocaust. Because he was a member of the Socialist–Zionist youth movement Hashomer Hatzair the Romanian fascist authorities sentenced him to 20 years of imprisonment with hard labor. Harsegor ended up working in the printing press of the prison. In 1944 he was released from prison, and continued to be active in the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement.
In 1946, after being active in gathering Jewish teenagers in Romania and facilitating their immigration to Palestine, he himself immigrated to Palestine. The British authorities in Palestine limited the Jewish immigration quota at that time and all the passengers on the ship taking him to Palestine were seized imprisoned in camps in Cyprus. They were released in early 1949 after the establishment of the State of Israel. In Cyprus Harsegor changed his name from Goldberg to Harsegor.^[2]
Harsegor was a member of Kibbutz Zikim and was the person who gave the kibbutz its name. Harsegor was a member of the Israeli Communist Party Maki and worked as a reporter for the Moscow Hebrew newspaper Kol HaAm. At that time he met his wife Tamar, and his daughter Niva was born.
Harsegor began his academic studies at the Tel Aviv University. He excelled in his Bachelor's degree and therefore the Tel Aviv University sent him to France to continue his studies. Harsegor studied in France for six years. For his academic achievement Harsegor was awarded the degree of Docteur d'État, a degree which is usually not awarded to foreigners. Between 1962 and 1966 Harsegor taught history in the Municipal High School Ironi D in Tel Aviv.
In 1974, Harsegor was in Lisbon during the Carnation Revolution, and as a result, the history of Portugal became one of his major topics of interest.
For more than twenty years, Harsegor hosted the regularly weekly seven o'clock evening program "Sha'a Historit" (History Hour) on the Galatz radio station, along with the Israeli radio broadcaster Alex Ansky.
Harsegor died on 10 February 2011 at the age of 86 in the city of Kfar Saba due to kidney disease.

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Blanche Honegger Moyse, American conductor died she was , 101.

Blanche Honegger Moyse  was a conductor living in Brattleboro, Vermont died she was , 101.. She was particularly admired for her devotion to the choral works of Johann Sebastian Bach and her ability to draw deeply moving performances from both amateur and professional musicians. Soprano Arleen Auger has said of her, "I’ve sung Bach all over the world, often with people who are considered the best, and in my opinion no one is performing Bach any better than Blanche Moyse is doing it in Brattleboro."^[1] She had been pointed out by the writer Benjamin Ivry as perhaps having been "classical music's best kept secret."^[2] Wall Street Journal critic Greg Sandow said of her performance of Bach's St. John Passion at the age of 89: "Sometimes you hear a concert that sticks with you. For months you think about it, keeping it alive in your mind, unable to banish it merely to memory."^[3]

(September 23, 1909 – February 10, 2011)

Moyse was born in Geneva, Switzerland, where she began the study of violin at the age of eight. She went on to study with Adolf Busch, and made her debut at the age of 16, when she played the Beethoven violin concerto with l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. She married the pianist and flutist Louis Moyse and, with Moyse's father, flutist Marcel Moyse, formed the award-winning Moyse Trio.
In 1949, the Moyses moved to Marlboro, Vermont at the invitation of Busch and Rudolf Serkin, and helped found the Marlboro Music Festival. Moyse also chaired the music department at Marlboro College for the next 25 years, and founded the Brattleboro Music Center in 1952. Her violin career ended in 1966 with an injury to her bow arm, but she went on to become a much admired conductor of the choral works of Bach. She made her Carnegie Hall debut at the age of 78, conducting the Blanche Moyse Chorale and the Orchestra of St. Luke's in a production of Bach's Christmas Oratorio, and she continued to conduct Bach's major choral works—the Mass in B Minor, the St Matthew Passion and the St John Passion—at annual concerts of the New England Bach Festival well into her 90's. In 2000 Blanche Moyse was awarded the Alfred Nash Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award by Choral Arts New England in recognition of her exceptional contributions to choruses and the appreciation of choral music in New England.
Moyse died at her home in Brattleboro, Vermont, on February 10, 2011 at the age of 101.^[4]

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Oleg Lavrentiev, Russian nuclear physicist died he was , 84.

Oleg Lavrentiev  - Russian, Soviet and Ukrainian physicist died he was , 84..

(July 7, 1926 - February 10, 2011)

Biography

Born in Pskov, into a family of descendants of peasants.
His father, Alexander, completed 2 years at a parochial school, worked as a clerk at a Pskov factory, his mother, Alexandra - completed 4 years, a nurse. ^[2][3]
During the war, at age 18 he volunteered for the front. Participated in the battles for the liberation of the Baltic States (1944-1945), transferred to the Sakhalin Military District, and continued military service in Poronaisk, at the just liberated from the Japanese island of Sakhalin.

The hydrogen bomb and controlled fusion

While in grade 7 (in 1941) upon reading "Introduction to Nuclear Physics", he showed interest in this topic. While in the military on Sakhalin Lavrentiev was educating himself, using the library of technical literature and college textbooks. With his measly military allowance he subscribed for the journal Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk. (Advances in physics science) In 1948, Lavrentiev was instructed to prepare a lecture on nuclear physics. With a few days to prepare, he had time to rethink the problem and wrote a letter to the Central Committee of the CPSU (b). From Moscow came an order to create for him an atmosphere where he could work. In a guarded room dedicated to him, he wrote his first article, which he sent in July 1950 via secret mail to the department of heavy equipment engineering of the Central Committee.
His proposal consisted of two parts. Fisrtly, he proposed an implementation of a hydrogen bomb, based on lithium deuteride. In the second part of his work, he describes how to obtain electricity from a controlled thermonuclear reaction.

In 1950 Lavrentiev was demobilized from the army and came to Moscow, where he entered the Physics Department of Moscow State University. A few months later he was summoned to the Minister of the measuring instrument (the nuclear industry) V.A. Makhnev, and a few days later - to the Kremlin to the chairman of an ad hoc committee on atomic and hydrogen weapons, Lavrentiy Beria.
After meeting with Beria, Lavrentiev given a room in the new house and a scholarship. He was allowed to attend lectures at will and to request on-demand delivery of scientific literature. He was assigned a math supervising professor PhD A.A. Samarskii (later - academician and Hero of Socialist Labor).
In May 1951, Lavrentiev got access to newly opened State program of fusion research. (Laboratory of instrumentation of the USSR, currently - Kurchatov Institute), where were carried out research on high temperature plasma physics classified as top-secret. There was already ongoing testing and development of Sakharov's and Tamm's ideas for the fusion reactor.
On August 12, 1953 the Soviet Union tested thermonuclear warhead based on the lithium deuteride. Unlike other participants in the development of new weapons that have received state awards, ranks and awards, Lavrentiev was denied admission to the lab, and was forced to write a thesis project without access to the lab and without a scientific adviser. None the less, he graduated with honors based on his theoretical work on controlled thermonuclear fusion.
In the spring of 1956 Lavrentiev was sent to Kharkiv Theoretical Physics School (Kharkov, Ukraine), and presented his report on the theory of electromagnetic traps to the director of the Institute K.D. Sinelnikov. In 1958, KIPT built the first electromagnetic trap.

 Restoring primacy

In August 2001, the journal "Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk" (Advances in physics science) published Lavrentiev's biography; his proposal that was mailed from Sakhalin, July 29, 1950; the review by Sakharov, and Beria's orders, which were kept in the Archives of the Russian Federation President designated as secret. That has reestablished the primacy of his scientific achievement.

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Jon Petrovich, American journalist, executive at CNN, died from cancer he was , 63.

Jon Petrovichwas an American journalist and television executive died from cancer he was , 63.. He is credited with founding numerous enterprises for CNN, including CNN.com, CNN Airport Network, and CNN en Español.


(February 28, 1947 - February 10, 2011) 

Biography

Petrovich was born in Gary, Indiana.^[1] He earned a bachelor's degree from Indiana University and a masters degree from the University of Alabama.

Career

Petrovich began as a reporter for WHAS-TV in Louisville, Kentucky before moving on to become assistant News Director for WDIV-TV in Detroit, Michigan.^{[citation needed]} He was news director at WBAL-TV in Baltimore, Maryland and later vice president and general manager of KTVI-TV in St. Louis, Missouri.^{[citation needed]}
Petrovich was executive vice president for CNN's Headline News (now HLN) in Atlanta, Georgia. Ted Turner hired him to lead Headline News in the mid-1980s.^[1] He oversaw CNN Radio and was directly involved in business development and marketing for all CNN networks. In 1994, he funded the establishment of CNN.com, and helped create CNN Airport Network and CNN en Español.^[1] He is widely credited with launching CNN Radio Noticias, CNN NewsSource.^{[citation needed]} While executive vice president of CNN Headline News, the network incorporated factoids into its on-air half-hour news wheel format.
After his role at CNN, Petrovich became president of Turner Broadcasting System Latin America.^{[citation needed]} Petrovich was the head of international networks for Sony Television after leaving CNN.^[1] Thereafter he was Professor and Broadcast Chair at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. In 2007 he became the head of U.S. broadcast operations for the Associated Press,^[1] where he oversaw the day-to-day domestic operations, working directly with AP's broadcast wire, online, radio and television operations.

Death

Petrovich, died February 10, 2011 in New York from complications due to cancer and diabetes, leaving behind his wife Karen and two grown children.^[1]

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