Victor Brumberg: 2008 Brouwer Award Winner
Victor A. Brumberg has had a long and distinguished career
in dynamical astronomy, and from 1987 to 2004, was the Chief
Scientist of the Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian
Academy of Sciences. His accomplishments include the major
achievement of establishing the field of general relativity applied
to celestial mechanics, such as in the definitions of dynamical
reference frames, and relativistic lunar dynamics. The impact of
Victor Brumberg on science is not, however, limited to
relativity. He has made significant contributions to planetary
theory, the restricted three body problem, stability of dynamical
motions, the secular increase of the astronomical unit, analytical
techniques for highly eccentric orbits, the acquisition and
reductions of observational measurements, and the rotation of the
Earth. He has authored over a 100 publications and six books, among
them the highly influential Essential Relativistic Celestial
Mechanics (1991) and Analytic Techniques of Celestial Mechanics
(1995). He has also served the astronomical community as Chairman
of the IAU commission 7 on Celestial Mechanics, and as Assistant
Editor of the Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy Journal
until 2005. Professor Brumberg has held several visiting positions
in France, Germany and Japan and his books are a significant factor
in the education he has provided in the field. Finally, Victor
Brumberg is the founder of a whole scientific school with eighteen
graduate students many of whom are making significant contributions
in the field of dynamical astronomy in their own right.
For his fundamental contributions to astronomy, reference systems and
celestial mechanics, Victor Brumberg is an outstanding recipient of
the 2008 Dirk Brouwer Award.
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