1. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Borisevich was a Soviet and Belarusian physicist and public figure.
10 Facts About Nikolai Borisevich
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Nikolai Aleksandrovich Borisevich was born on 21 September 1923 into a peasant family in the village of Lucny Most, in the Minsk Region of what was then the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic within the Soviet Union.
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Nikolai Borisevich subsequently completed his post-graduate studies at the Vavilov State Optical Institute, defending his thesis in 1954.
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In 1969, Nikolai Borisevich was appointed as president of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
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Nikolai Borisevich held the position for 18 years, until 1987, and oversaw a high point of Belarusian activity in the sciences.
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Nikolai Borisevich was active in several fields of molecular physics, including quantum optics, spectroscopy, and laser science.
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Nikolai Borisevich additionally developed optical methods for measuring the temperature of molecules, as well as delayed fluorescence upon thermal excitation.
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Nikolai Borisevich contributed to the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1991, the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences from 1977 until the organisation's dissolution, the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts from 1981, and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts from 1991.
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Nikolai Borisevich died on 25 October 2015, at the age of 92.
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Nikolai Borisevich has made possible the outstanding accomplishments of Belarusian science in the area of spectroscopy and luminescence, infrared technologies, laser physics.