Umirzak Sultangazin
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| name = Umirzak Sultangazin
| native_name = Өмірзақ Махмұтұлы Сұлтанғазин
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| image = Stamps of Kazakhstan, 2011-21.jpg
| caption = Stamp dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the birth of Umirzak Sultangazin
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1936|10|04|df=y}}
| birth_place = Karaoba settlement, Kostanay Region, Kazakh SSR, USSR
| death_date = {{death date and age|2005|5|23|1936|10|04|df=y}}
| death_place = Berlin, Germany
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| occupation = Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
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| awards = Order of Parasat
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
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Umirzak Makhmutovich Sultangazin (4 October 1936, Karaoba, Sarykol District, Kostanay Region, Kazakh SSR, USSR — 23 May 2005, Berlin, Germany) was a scientist,{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R54rAQAAIAAJ |title=Кто есть кто в Казахстане |date=2003 |publisher=Nisa |isbn=978-9965-9164-8-9 |language=ru}} mathematician,{{Cite web|language=en|url=https://www.nlrk.kz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1508:organized-the-book-exhibition-alem-gylymynyn-sanlagy-dedicated-to-the-birthday-of-the-prominent-scientist-mathematician-academician-of-the-academy-of-sciences-of-the-rk-the-creator-of-the-kazakhstani-scientific-school-in-the-sphere-of-the-theory-of-transference-of-irradiation-umirzak-makhmutovich-sultangazin&catid=125&lang=en&Itemid=127|title=Organized the book exhibition ”Alem gylymynyn sanlagy” dedicated to the birthday of the prominent scientist-mathematician, academician of the Academy of sciences of the RK Umirzak Makhmutovich Sultangazin|website=www.nlrk.kz|date=2019-10-04|access-date=2023-09-12}} Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1972),{{Cite web|language=en|url= https://pis.ksu.edu.kz/en/about-institute/ |title=U. Sultangazin Pedagogical Institute|website=pis.ksu.edu.kz|date=|access-date=2023-09-11}} Professor (1974), Academician at the Kazakh SSR Academy of Sciences (1983),{{Cite web|language=ru|url=https://time.kz/news/culture/2018/07/16/kostanajskomu-gosudarstvennomu-peduniversitetu-namereni-prisvoit-imja-akademika-sultangazina|title=Костанайскому государственному педуниверситету намерены присвоить имя академика Султангазина|website=time.kz|date=2018-07-16|access-date=2023-09-11}} and an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics.{{Cite web|language=ru|url= https://nomad.su/?a=20-200505240232 |title=После тяжелой болезни скончался видный казахстанский ученый, академик Умирзак Султангазин |website= nomad.su |date=2005-05-24|access-date=2023-09-11}}
Biography
Umirzak Sultangazin was born in the settlement of Karaoba (Sarykol District, Kostanay Region, Kazakh SSR) on 4 October 1936.{{Cite web|language=ru|url= https://www.kraeved-kst.kz/ru/gordost/o-regione/gordost-zemli-kostanaiskoi/umirzak-makhmutovich-sultangazin-1936-2005.html |title=Султангазин Умирзак Махмутович|website=www.kraeved-kst.kz|date=|access-date=2023-09-11}} After graduation from Kazakh State University in 1958 with a degree in Mathematics, Sultangazin successfully lectured until 1978 (as assistant, senior lecturer, associate professor and Computational Mathematics Chair).{{Cite web|language=ru|url=https://kazpravda.kz/n/on-vsegda-byl-na-peredovoy-nauki/|title=Он всегда был на передовой науки |website= kazpravda.kz |date=2016-10-14|access-date=2023-08-25}}
In 1964 he moved to Novosibirsk to work at the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, where he defended his Ph.D. thesis at the Institute of Mathematics on The splitting method for the kinetic equation of transfer.{{Cite web|language=en|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Sultangazin/|title=Umirzak Makhmutovich Sultangazin|website= mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk |date=|access-date=2023-08-25}} Together with Gury Marchuk, he proved the feasibility of using the splitting method for the radiative transfer equations and proved their convergence in this case.{{Cite web|language=en|url=https://bookofproofs.github.io/history/20th-century/sultangazin.html |title=Person: Sultangazin, Umirzak |website=bookofproofs.github.io|date=|access-date=2023-08-25}} In 1968 he was hired as a senior researcher at the Computing Center of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk, where he defended his doctoral dissertation on "The method of spherical harmonics for the non-stationary kinetic equation of radiation transfer" (in the field of Differential Equations) based on the results of his research.{{Cite web|language=ru|url= https://uchebana5.ru/cont/1342647-p6.html |title= Руководство института 42 |website=uchebana5.ru|date=|access-date=2023-09-11}} He became a Doctor of Sciences at the age of 36.{{Cite web|language=ru|url=http://sarikol-biblio.ucoz.ru/index/ikh_imena_v_istorii_rajona/0-25 |title= «Их имена в истории района»|website=sarikol-biblio.ucoz.ru|date=|access-date=2023-09-11}}
In 1978, Umirzak Sultangazin was invited to head the Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics at the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR,{{Cite web|language=ru|url= https://www.kaznu.kz/ru/3/news/one/3053/ |title=На Механико-математическом факультете КАЗНУ состоялось открытие аудитории им. Султангазина |website= www.kaznu.kz |date=2011-10-25|access-date=2023-08-28}} where he trained numerous young mathematicians. He became the President of Kazakhstan’s Academy of Sciences in 1988 and held this position until February 1994.{{Cite web|language=ru|url=https://www.novgaz.com/index.php/2-news/2657-|title=Товарищи ученые, кончайте поножовщину|website=www.novgaz.com|date=2021-04-16|access-date=}} Three regional branches of the Academy were established in the cities of Shymkent, Ust’-Kamenogorsk and Atyrau under his leadership.{{Cite web|language=en|url=https://nauka-nanrk.kz/en/presedent-of-nanrk/sultangazin.html|title=National Academy of Science RK Presidents Sultangazin|website=nauka-nanrk.kz|date=2020-03-25|access-date=}}
On 26 March 1989 he was elected People's Deputy of the USSR by the scientists of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR to represent the Karaganda-Oktyabrsk national-territorial electoral district No. 142 of the Kazakh SSR.{{Cite web|language=ru|url= http://supsov.narod.ru/HTML/D1860.HTML|title=Султангазин Умирзак Махмутович|website=supsov.narod.ru|date=|access-date=2023-09-11}}{{Cite web|language=ru|url=https://engime.org/centralenaya-nauchnaya-biblioteka.html?page=13|title=Центральная научная библиотека|website=engime.org|date=|access-date=2023-09-11}}
Sultangazin ran the Institute of Space Research at Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences from its establishment in 1991 (pursuant to Umirzak’s own proposal) until his death in 2005,{{Cite web|language=ru|url=https://www.inform.kz/ru/institutu-kosmicheskih-issledovaniy-kazahstana-prisvoeno-imya-ego-osnovatelya-akademika-umirzaka-sultangazina_a2351007|title=Институту космических исследований Казахстана присвоено имя его основателя - академика Умирзака Султангазина|website=www.inform.kz|date=2011-02-11|access-date=2023-08-28}}{{Cite web|language=ru|url=https://vechastana.kz/kazahstanskij-kosmos-obgonyaya-gorizont/ |title= Казахстанский космос: «обгоняя горизонт» |website=vechastana.kz|date=2021-08-21|access-date=}} spurring the growth of Kazakhstan’s space industry.{{Cite web|language=ru|url=http://rikatv.kz/evrika/articles/kazakhskiy-gagarin.html |title=Казахский Гагарин|website=rikatv.kz|date=2023-08-28|access-date=}}
In 2004, Sultangazin led the implementation of the scientific and technical program titled National Space Monitoring System of the Republic of Kazakhstan. After his personal meetings with President Nazarbayev, the state program for the development of the space industry in Kazakhstan was launched.{{Cite web|language=ru|url=https://oldru.kyzylorda-news.kz/news/lifnews/19495-nacionalnomu-aerokosmicheskomu-agentstvu-rk-25-let.html|title=Национальному Аэрокосмическому Аненству РК – 25 ЛЕТ!|website= oldru.kyzylorda-news.kz |date=|access-date=2023-09-26}}
On 23 May 2005, Umirzak Sultangazin, aged 68, passed away in a Berlin clinic after a serious illness.
==Family==
Children: Janat, Almas.{{Cite web|language=ru|url= https://forbes.kz/ranking/object/785 |title=Алмас Султангазин |website=forbes.kz |date=|access-date=2023-09-29}}
Scientific legacy
- Spherical Harmonics Method Lectures. Alma-Ata, 1975;{{Cite web|language=ru|url=https://search.rsl.ru/ru/record/01007004235|title=Султангазин, Умирзак Махмутович - Лекции по методу сферических гармоник|website= search.rsl.ru |date=|access-date=2023-09-27}}
- Spherical Harmonics and Discrete Ordinates Methods in the Kinetic Transfer Theory. Alma-Ata, 1979;{{Cite web|language=ru|url=https://www.studmed.ru/sultangazin-u-m-metody-sfericheskih-garmonik-i-diskretnyh-ordinat-v-zadachah-kineticheskoy-teorii-perenosa_b22b08f9704.html|title=Султангазин У.М. Методы сферических гармоник и дискретных ординат в задачах кинетической теории переноса|website=www.studmed.ru |date=|access-date=2023-09-29}}
- Discrete Models of Nonlinear Boltzmann Equations. Alma-Ata, 1985.{{Cite web|language=ru|url=https://opac.flib.sci.am/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=27542|title= Дискретные нелинейные модели уравнения Больцмана / У.М. Султангазин|website=opac.flib.sci.am|date=|access-date=2023-09-29}}
Awards and honours
- USSR State Award for Mathematics (1987);{{Cite web|language=ru|url=https://e-history.kz/ru/news/show/28285|title=Султангазин, открывший Казахстану путь в космос|website= e-history.kz |date=2020-05-29|access-date=}}
- Natural Sciences Award of the USSR Academy of Sciences and Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences (1989);{{Cite web|language=ru|url= https://uchitelskaya.kz/vse-rubriki/shkola-xxi-veka/tribuna-uchitelya/zhizn-kak-primer-sluzheniya-idealam-nauki|title=Жизнь как пример служения идеалам науки|website=uchitelskaya.kz|date=2020-10-16|access-date=}}
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1987);
- Order of Lenin for a great contribution to the application of space science in the national economy and active role in the preparation and implementation of the Soyuz TM-13 mission (1991);{{Cite web|language=ru|url= https://www.libussr.ru/doc_ussr/usr_19826.htm|title=Указ Президента Союза Советских Социалистических Республик о награждении Султангазина У.М. орденом Ленина|website=www.libussr.ru |date=1991-12-18|access-date=2023-08-25}}
- Order of Parasat (2004);{{Cite web |url=http://nomad.su/?a=19-200412150320 |title=В канун Дня независимости Указом Президента РК 650 казахстанцев награждены государственными наградами 2004 года |website= nomad.su|date=2004-12-15|access-date=2023-08-25}}
Legacy
- Streets in Almaty and Kostanay are named after Sultangazin;{{Cite web |last=Shinkorenko |first=Olga |date=22 May 2019 |title=В Костанае открыли памятник казахскому ученому Умирзаку Султангазину |url=https://liter.kz/1957-v-kostanae-otkryli-pamyatnik-kazahskomu-uchenomu-umirzaku-sultangazinu/ |access-date=2023-10-03 |website=Liter.kz |language=ru}}
- A secondary school in his native district of Sarykol (former Uritsky) was named after Umirzak Sultangazin;{{Cite web|language=ru|url= https://365info.kz/2019/02/selam-shkolam-i-ulitsam-kostanajskoj-oblasti-prisvaivayut-imena-vydayushhihsya-zemlyakov |title=Костанайской области присваивают имена выдающихся земляков |website=365info.kz |date=2019-02-26|access-date=}}
- Institute of Space Research of Kazakhstan’s Academy of Sciences (now JSC NTsKIT) which he previously led, was named after him in January 2011;{{Cite web|language=ru|url=https://nomad.su/?a=17-201102140024|title=О присвоении имени академика У.М. Султангазина Институту космических исследований|website=nomad.su|date=2011-02-14|access-date=2023-08-25}}
- A commemorative stamp was published on Sultangazin’s anniversary in October 2011;{{Cite web|language=ru|url=http://ukrafil.com/ru/news?action=rsrtme&offset=2373|title=Казахстан. Космос и математика |website=ukrafil.com |date=|access-date=2023-09-11}}
- Kostanay State Pedagogical University (Institute since 2020) was renamed after Sultangazin in 2018;{{Cite web|language=en|url=https://old2.kspi.kz/en/news/faculties/department-of-philology/8943-watching-the-movie-the-line-of-destiny-umirzak-sultangazin|title=Watching the movie «The Line of destiny Umirzak Sultangazin»|website=old2.kspi.kz|date=2019-02-20|access-date=2023-08-25}}{{Cite web|language=en|url=https://kaztag.kz/en/news/pedagogic-university-to-be-named-after-academician-sultangazin-in-kostanay|title=Pedagogic university to be named after academician Sultangazin in Kostanay|website=kaztag.kz|date=2018-06-19|access-date=2023-09-11}}
- A memorial bust to Sultangazin was erected in front of Kostanay State Pedagogical University in May 2019.{{Cite web|language=ru|url=https://www.ng.kz/modules/news/article.php?storyid=34810 |title=Памятник академику Умирзаку Султангазину открыли в Костанае|website= www.ng.kz |date=2019-05-17|access-date=2023-08-25}}
References
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Category:Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Category:Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Category:Recipients of the USSR State Prize
Category:Soviet mathematicians
Category:Al-Farabi Kazakh National University alumni
Category:Members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union by term