Sergei Vonsovsky was born in 1910 in
Tashkent. In 1932 he graduated from the
Leningrad University. In 1932 he moved to
Sverdlovsk and started working at the Ural Physicotechical Institute, later – at the Metals Physics Institute of the Ural branch of the
Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1943 he defended his second thesis and received the highest scientific degree of
Doctor of Sciences. From 1947 he also kept a professorship at the chair of theoretical physics at the department of physics of the
Ural State University. Since 1971 to 1985 he was the director of the Ural branch of the
Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. Sergei Vonsovsky led researches in the field of
metal physics studying the
transition metals and the fusions. He created the fusions
ferromagnetism theory and developed the theory of magnetic
anisotropy. He also worked at the field of the
transition metals and fusions
superconductivity in particular he studied the problem of simultaneity of ferromagnetism and
paramagnetism. He was the founder of the Ural scientific school in ferromagnetism and metals physics. Ural Branch of the
Russian Academy of Sciences instituted
Vonsovsky Gold Medal in his honour. ==Honours==