Igor Troitski
Igor Nikolayevich Troitski (; born 2 May 1941) is a Soviet, Russian and American scientist, Doctor of technical sciences, professor and an author of more than 200 scientific papers, books, monographs and tutorials. His contributions are focused on the following topics: laser ranging, holography, tomography, adaptive optics and creation of optical images inside transparent material. Troitski has 79 Soviet inventor’s certificates and 29 US patents. Biography Igor Troitski was born into a family of medical doctors. His mother – Bronislava Grigoryevna Lipnitskaya (1914–1996) – was a gynecologist. His father – Nikolai Alekseyevich Troitski (1896–1965) – was a professor in hospital therapy, who came into the field of medicine after graduating from theological seminary. Troitski spent The Great Patriotic War years (1941–1945) in evacuation in Northern Kazakhstan with his mother and grandmother. From 1945 to 1952, he lived in the village Saltykovka near Moscow, and then moved to Moscow with his family. In 1958, he graduated from high school № 453 with a Gold Medal. In 1958–1959, Troitski worked as a carpenter in Moscow ancillary production. In 1965, after graduating from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, he received the qualification of an engineer-physicist and entered postgraduate studies. His scientific