Feodor Ivanovich Vilesov
Feodor Ivanovich Vilesov (; 13 November 1925 – 8 February 1978) was a Soviet experimental physicist whose main contributions are in the field of chemical physics. Education and early life Vilesov was born in Belyukovo village near Kudymkar, in Komi-Permyak Okrug (autonomous national district), Perm region, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, on November 13, 1925, to a couple of: Ivan Ilvich Vilesov and Vassa Vasilievna Vilesova. During 1943 -1950 he served in the Soviet Army. In 1950 he entered the Department of Physics, Leningrad State University, from which he graduated with an honorable diploma (master's degree) in 1955. He continued with his Ph. D. studies at the Institute of Physics, Leningrad State University, in the department of photonics led by Professor A. N. Terenin and in 1959 he defended his thesis “The Study of Photoionization of vapors of organic molecules and interrogation of the influence of adsorbed layers on photoelectric Emission from Semiconductor Catalysts”. He obtained his Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (a "higher doctorate") degree in 1966 for a thesis on the development of photoelectron spectroscopy in the gas phase and molecular solids entitled: “Photoionization of Organic Molecules” Career From 1955 to 1978, he worked at the Institute for