August 21, 1909 - birthday of Nikolay Nikolayevich Bogolyubov, a Soviet mathematician and theoretical physicist known for a significant contribution to quantum field theory, classical and quantum statistical mechanics, and the theory of dynamical systems.
In 1924, at the age of 15, Nikolay Bogolyubov wrote his first published scientific paper “On the behavior of solutions of linear differential equations at infinity”. In 1925 he entered Ph.D. program at the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR and obtained the degree of Kandidat Nauk (Candidate of Sciences, equivalent to a Ph.D.) in 1928, at the age of 19.
In 1930, at the age of 21, he obtained the degree of Doktor nauk (Doctor of Sciences), the highest degree in the Soviet Union, which requires the recipient to have made a significant independent contribution to his or her scientific field.
Nikolay Bogolyubov received several high USSR honours and international awards for his path-breaking work. He won the Dirac Prize, Max Planck Medal, Franklin Medal, Heineman Prize, two Stalin Prizes, six Orders of Lenin, USSR State Prize, Lenin Prize among many more.
Nikolay Bogoliubov was a scientific supervisor of several noted physicists and mathematicians like Yurii Mitropolskiy, Dmitry Shirkov, Selim Krein, Iosif Gihman, Tofik Mamedov, Kirill Gurov, Mikhail Polivanov, Naftul Polsky, Galina Biryuk, Sergei Tyablikov, Dmitry Zubarev and Vladimir Kadyshevsky.
His method of teaching, based on creation of a warm atmosphere, politeness and kindness, is famous in Russia and is known as the "Bogoliubov approach".
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