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For more see the link, Prof. Leonid I. Manevitch (1938-2020)
L. I. Manevitch was born 2nd April 1938 in Mogilev (fSU, now R. Belarus). He received his high school and university education in Dnipro, Ukraine. After completing his undergraduate degree at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at Dnipro National University in 1959 he worked in the Design Bureau “Yuzhnoe” and was simultaneously a part-time postgraduate student under the supervision of Prof. Yu. A. Shevlyakov. In 1961 he completed his PhD in the area of shell stability and started working at Dnipro National University as an associate professor in the Department of Applied Elasticity, led by Prof. V. I. Mossakovsky. In 1970, at the age of 32, he completed his DSc thesis, concerned with asymptotic and group methods in mechanics of solids, and was promoted to a full professorship at the same department. In 1976, after relocating to Moscow, he was appointed as a senior research fellow and later on as Head of the Polymer Physics and Mechanics division at the Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences. From 1984 onwards, he was also a part-time professor of the Department of Polymer Physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
At the beginning of L. I. Manevitch’s academic activities – during the span of 15 years – his main research focuses were on asymptotic analysis of elastic anisotropic media, strength and stability of anisotropic and stiffened plates and shells, as well as on the investigation of normal vibration modes in essentially non-linear systems. It is noteworthy that his asymptotic ideas were not just a technical tool for analysing difficult problems, but also became the cornerstone of his entire scientific philosophy; the key to the understanding of a variety of phenomena and physical theories. The peculiarities of L. I. Manevitch’s approach involve the nontrivial choice of novel asymptotic parameters, as well as a combination of the asymptotic approach with group theory. This enables not only the broadening of the range of applications of the asymptotic analysis, but also the understanding of it in more general perspectives. Based on these concepts, stimulating development of physical and engineering intuition, he supervised numerous students and established a strong scientific group in Dnipro.
The aforementioned ideas and methods appeared to be highly instrumental and robust at the next stage of L. I. Manevitch’s research activity, which was mainly related to the modelling of a variety of problems in mechanics and physics of polymers and composites. At the same time, these ideas were naturally combined with several new techniques and procedures arising in modern nonlinear physics, in particular in the nonlinear wave theory. Namely the combination of asymptotic methodology and the recents achievements in nonlinear physics allowed L. I. Manevitch to solve a number of important problems in this field.
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