The Vasily Shuleikin Prize for young scientists was established to encourage the post-graduate students and young scientists (up to 35 years old) of the Federal State Budget Scientific Institution «Marine Hydrophysical Institute of RAS for scientific works and inventions that are important for basic and applied science. The Prize is presented for a separate scientific work or a set of works in the field of theoretical marine studies. The award consists of a cash prize and a winner certificate.
Vasily Vladimirovich Shuleikin (1895–1979) was an outstanding researcher of the World Ocean, the founder of the domestic marine physics, an academician, laureate of the State Prize, engineer-captain 1st rank.
V.V. Shuleikin was the first to introduce into geophysics the thermodynamic concept of heat machines operating in the ocean – atmosphere – continent system. Through his efforts, in 1942, the Marine Department of the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics of the USSR Academy of Sciences was transformed into the Marine Hydrophysical Laboratory of the USSR Academy of Sciences, which he headed. After the war, on May 13, 1948, when the Black Sea Hydrophysical Station and the Marine Hydrophysical Laboratory were merged into the Marine Hydrophysical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences, academician V.V. Shuleikin became its first director.
Academician V.V. Shuleikin and his students are the authors of a large number of experimental and theoretical works in such scientific areas as hydrooptics, hydroacoustics, electromagnetic phenomena in the sea, molecular biophysics and biophysics of the marine environment.
Vasily Vladimirovich Shuleikin