Georgi Ivanov Manev website - Brief Biography   

The Bulgarian physicist Georgi Manev (1884 - 1965) is a founder of the department of Theoretical Physics in Sofia University. His scientific ideas found a new application in the region of celestial mechanics (so called Manev-type field) last ten years.  Some brief biographical data concerning his life, social and scientific activity are listed below:
 

15 (27) January 1884 -  born in the town of Veliko Tarnovo (Bulgaria)
1901 -  finished the Veliko Tarnovo secondary school
1905 -  graduated from the Physico-Mathematical Department of Sofia University
1905 - 1912 - teacher in Razgrad and in the Veliko Tarnovo secondary school
1912 - 1913 -  mobilization in the Balkan and Allies wars
1913 - 1915 - specialization in theoretical physics in Toulouse (France) to Professor H. Bouasse
1918 - mobilization in the First World War
1919 -  started a scientific carrier as an assistant of physics in Sofia University  (age of 35 years)
1921 - docent of mathematical physics and mechanics
1925 - extraordinary professor of theoretical physics
1926 - 1927 and 1930 - 1931-  dean of Physico-Mathematical Faculty of Sofia University
1935 - ordinary professor and chair of the Department of Theoretical Physics
1936 - 1937- rector of the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski".
1938 - minister of education in the second cabinet of the prime-minister Georgi  Kyoseivanov
1944 - December - fired from Sofia University without right to work
1947 - rehabilitated, but not accepted in the University
15 July 1965 - deceased in Sofia

A detail biographical for Prof. Georgi Manev is published in the monograph:

The Bulgarian Physicist-Theorist Georgi Manev (1884-1965)
Rediscovery after Oblivion
(Materials, Researches, Documents)

       Physics on Stage, Sofia, September 2000     
Printed "Viktrix" Ltd.

Published for first time in 2000 by:

D. K. Hristov, M. K. Tsvetkov, V.E. Todorov, K. P. Tsvetkova, A.G. Manev, M. I. Donev,
L. A. Dashovska, S.D. Stoianova, F. Diacu, M. Stavinschi, V. Mioc, D. P. Parvanova, G. M. Desimirov,
R. S. Radkov, T. I. Fizieva, T. I.Davidova, I.L. Davidov, N.H. Mollova-Ganova, E. Dobreva, E. S. Brankova,
V. Teneva, S. B. Zlateva, T. M. Buzova, M. N. Apostolova, H. Dareva

in connection with the participation of Bulgaria  in the Europian Weeks
for Science and Technological Culture  "Physics on Stage"

More information about Prof. Georgi Ivanov Manev can be found at http://www.issp.bas.bg/lab/ephi/Museum/M11-page2.html (created by G. Kamisheva - Institute of Solid State Physics,BAS). The Kamisheva's historical study is suported by the Bulgarian NSF project F-431/2003 of the Ministry of Science and Education.


A   special conference dedicated to the 120 birthday of Georgi Manev is be organized in Sofia (May 20-22, 2004)

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