Sergei Rytov
1908–1996 (age 88)
Biography
Sergei Mikhailovich Rytov (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Рытов; 3 July 1908 – 22 October 1996) was a Soviet physicist and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Rytov contributed to the fields of statistical radiophysics, and fluctuational electrodynamics. The Rytov number for laser propagation in the atmosphere and the Rytov approximation for wave propagation in inhomogeneous media bear his name.