title: Kharkov Joint Chapter Salutes Yakov S. Shifrin on His 90th Birthday
abstract: Life Fellow of the IEEE and founder of the statistical antenna theory, Prof. Yakov Solomonovich Shifrin was born in the town of Mstislavl, Belarus, on April 23, 1920. In 1941, he graduated with honors from the Leningrad State University with a specialty in Physics. Yakov Solomonovich is a man of unbending spirit and morality. He took part in the Second World War. In 1944–1945, he was a commander of radar units. He was the first lecturer on radiolocation with the Sevastopol school of antiaircraft
journal: IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine