Nikolay
(1 May 1921 – 11 January 2017) Professor of Technical Sciences and Physics at Kazan State University.
For 32 years, Neprimerov was Head of Kazan University's Department of Radioelectronics and is the author of over 150 scholarly papers and 9 books. He also wrote a book about military pilots' daily lives during World War II.
He received various honours and medals, including the Russian Federation Government Prize in Science and Technology
Neprimerov devoted almost 40 years to oil recovery and is known internationally for physical research.
Biography
Nikolay N. Neprimerov (Preobrazhensky) was born on May 1, 1921 to a forest ranger and school teacher in Annovka hamlet (Voronezh region, Russia).
His family relocated to Kazan in 1926. After graduating with honours from School No. 83 in 1939, N. Neprimerov was called for military service.
He was an aviation technician until 1946, serving four years in front line. Awarded Red Star Order and Medals.
In 1946, he became a student at Kazan State University's Faculty of Physics and Mathematics to stay there for his life.
He won individual scholarships and graduated with honours from the University in 1951, pursued his postgraduate studies under Associate Professor S.A. Altschuler, defended his PhD thesis (1954) and earned Doctor of Technical Sciences (1963). During his postgraduate studies, he invented a new specialisation – magnetic radiospectroscopy – and contributed in creating a fundamental research facility in this subject. In 1960, he became Head of Radio Electronics at the Faculty of Physics and founded another specialisation, Radiophysical Measures.
In those years, he created his own scientific research technique. Neprimerov sequentially constructed three separate test facilities when writing his PhD thesis.
He studied microwave polarisation plane rotation and magnetic susceptibility dispersion and determined the dielectric constant for all 36 analysed substances enabling the Macaluso-Corbino effect to be linked not only qualitatively but also quantitatively to electron paramagnetic resonance and a theoretical rationale for this relationship.
In 1955, Neprimerov was awarded the first contract with the Tatneft Petroleum Company in Kazan State University's history.
Then Neprimerov began integrated, in-depth research of transferring processes in porous media, phase transitions in oil and thermal, hydrodynamic and physicochemical oil and gas fields.
He analysed thermal and mineral water fields and Earth's thermal regime for a fuller knowledge of Earth's inner processes.
By the early 1980s, data obtained from over 250 fields using unique instrumentation and basic research enabled Neprimerov to build a new method for optimal oil reservoir development based on an in-depth understanding of fluid displacement in deformed, porous media. This technology—increasing production rates and oil recovery while drastically reducing production costs—was the basis for additional development projects for the Tatarstan oil fields of Aznakaevskaya, East Leninogorskaya, Shugurovskaya and Berezovskaya (Russia).
In 1978, Neprimerov developed a new faculty for oil retraining at Kazan State University. More than 200 Russian specialists graduated from this faculty over 10 years.
The Department of Radioelectronics formed the Physical Dynamics Laboratory of Heterogeneous Media in 1988, and Neprimerov became its chief researcher after retiring from Head of Department in 1992. Nikolay Neprimerov is three-time KSU First Prize winner for excellent research (1957, 1962 and 1993).
Neprimerov worked with active research to improve teaching theory and practise. About 650 students graduated from the Radio Electronics Department in Nikolay Neprimerov's specialisation. He frequently lectured publicly at Kazan University on Sundays, garnering tremendous audiences.
Nikolay Neprimerov was a member of various scientific and technological councils, committees and ministries as well as the USSR Academy of Sciences. He was also a state examiner for the USSR State Planning Committee and member of academic councils at Kazan State University's Faculties of Physics and Geology and Kazan Technical University.
Nikolay Neprimerov's 70th birthday released his most important masterpiece, The Universe. Another significant work, Physical Dynamics, was prepared when he was 75. Nikolay Neprimerov also wrote a book about the daily life of military air service soldiers during World War II.
Neprimerov married Galina Anatolievna Neprimerova in 1959. Their granddaughter is a German astrophysicist. She got a Physics BSc and Astronomy Diploma from Kasan State University. She has been a research group director at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy since 2014.
Neprimerov died on January 11, 2017.
Scientific works
Man of science
Nikolay N. Neprimerov began his scientific life at Kazan University in 1946 about 60 years ago. He graduated from the University in 1951, obtained a PhD in 1954, and became a PhD in 1963.
Nikolay Neprimerov is one of those great geniuses that resurrected science and technology in Russia after WWII.
Neprimerov's commitment to science at Kazan State University for over 60 years has always been based on his main philosophy: the relationship between life and science and fundamental research and industry must be indissoluble.
From his early research endeavours, Neprimerov was an accomplished experimental physicist and field guy.
His expeditions ranged from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka, and from Archangelsk to the Kara-Kum desert. Over 250 fields and several thousand test locations were evaluated with specialised apparatus. By the early 1980s, basic movement mechanism research enabled Neprimerov to build a fundamentally new method for optimal oil reservoir development based on an in-depth understanding of fluid displacement in deformed porous media. In the 21st century, this field-tested method will restore the remaining but currently unrecoverable half of oil reserves.
Nikolay Neprimerov's scientific papers illustrate his wide range of interests. Their list includes work on magnetic and dielectric radiospectroscopy (25), radioelectronics (13), terrestrial physics (50), biology (6), oil field development (54), gas field development (16) and education (15). This list includes contains 16 journalistic works and one autobiographical book concerning the daily life of military air force members during World War II.
Neprimerov's visits to research centres encompass various countries from both hemispheres.
Nikolay Neprimerov considers physics much more than a collection of its subdisciplines. Thanks to this perspective, his contribution to world science is wide and diverse.
1. The Social Heritage Program as a knowledge foundation to be transmitted to succeeding generations, described in The Universe (1992) and Natural Science (2000).
2. A discrete medium physical model based on five particle properties: mass, size, load, mechanical and magnetic moments. This list can potentially be complemented by the interaction law in the book Physical Dynamics (1997).
Neprimerov was innovative in several fields. Official science not always recognised and accepted his ideas, despite they always presented novel answers to the most complicated scientific and commercial challenges.
Neprimerov worked with research and outreach activities to improve teaching theory and practise. About 650 students graduated from the Radio Electronics Department in Nikolay Neprimerov's specialisation. He frequently lectured publicly at Kazan University on Sundays, garnering tremendous audiences.
Neprimerov built a complex, informal scientific school operating in different research and industry-related fields. His popular inter-faculty research workshops attracted scientists from all departments of Kazan University and various Russian and other universities.
Fundamental science
Neprimerov's studies in numerous sciences—physics, theory of gravity, geology, biology, etc.—suggested they shared similar basics. The search for these fundamentals led Neprimerov in the early 1980s to create a physical model of the discrete medium consisting of particles with mass, size, charge, and mechanical and magnetic moments that interact in the three-dimensional macrocosm through strong forces in the microcosm and electrical and magnetic forces.
Neprimerov analysed structural features and attributes of atomic and molecular media and interaction processes to describe the universe's overall structure as a hierarchy of size-jumping systems and the introduction of new qualities in the transition from lower to higher systems. In 1992, Neprimerov's long-standing work was published as a monograph, The Universe, and later refined in the book Physical Dynamics (1997) explaining the discrete medium and energy, impulse, and rest mass particle movement. In addition, two other monographs were released in the early 21st century: Natural Science and The Universe Structure (2001).
These volumes include the basics of a wide range of university disciplines, such as microdynamics, electrodynamics, acoustic dynamics, thermodynamics, chemodynamics, fluid dynamics, geodynamics, and homodynamics, which Nikolay Neprimerov characterised as a human science about man's place in the universe.
Vision
Neprimerov was profoundly convinced that the 21st century scientific paradigm will be represented by a systematic method, invariants, and discrete environment model. Based on his five-decade experience, Neprimerov believes that this century will be the century of matter and that science advancement will be influenced by three factors:
1. Replacement of a typical continuous model with a discrete model based mainly on particle size, particle interaction mechanism and characteristic interaction duration.
2. The systematic approach to the structure of the Universe with reference to the hierarchical jumping of particle size during the transition from one system to another and the creation of a fundamentally new quality.
3. Invariants discovered not only by laws governing events, processes and phenomena, but also by the generalisation of rules embracing numerous fields.
Neprimerov assumes several such invariants may exist:
1) The systematic hierarchical principle of temporal evolution.
2) Universal law of mass transfer under gradient particle concentration and associated pulse of disturbance transport and energy dissipation.
3) A ratio that quantitatively determines new system transformation quality.
For the 21st century, Neprimerov forecasts rough determination of biological interaction processes and circuits of thought creation and circulation in the brain cortex neural network.
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