What is Vladimir Fortov?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Vladimir Fortov |image = Президент РАН Владимир Фортов.jpeg |office = President of the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]] |term_start = 29 May 2013 |term_end = 22 March 2017 |predecessor = |successor = [[Valery Kozlov]] (acting) |birth_date = {{birth date|1946|1|23|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Noginsk]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]] |death_date ={{death date and age|2020|11|29|1946|1|23|df=y}} |death_place = [[Moscow]], [[Russia]] |party = |alma_mater = [[Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology]] |profession = Academic of [[Russian Academy of Sciences]] |signature = }} '''Vladimir Yevgenyevich Fortov''' ({{lang-ru|Владимир Евгеньевич Фортов}}; 23 January 1946 – 29 November 2020) was a Russian [[physicist]]. He was director of the [[Joint Institute for High Temperatures]] from 1992 to 2013. He was president of the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]] from 2013 to 2017.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.itar-tass.com/c1/753515.html|script-title=ru:Владимир Фортов избран президентом Российской академии наук|date=29 May 2013|publisher=[[ITAR-TASS]]|language=ru|access-date=29 May 2013|archive-date=18 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130618061550/http://www.itar-tass.com/c1/753515.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1991, he became a member of the academy. He was known for his research in [[thermal physics]], [[shock wave]]s and [[Plasma (physics)|plasma physics]]. He was elected a member of the [[Academia Europaea]] in 1998.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Fortov_Vladimir |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328104806/https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Fortov_Vladimir |title=Vladimir E. Fortov|publisher=Academia Europaea |archive-date=28 March 2019}}</ref> Fortov died on 29 November 2020 in [[Moscow]] from [[COVID-19]] at the age of 74.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.interfax.ru/russia/739128|script-title=ru: Скончался болевший ко