Konstantin Nikolaev Konstantin Nikolaev Konstantin Nikolaev () is a billionaire Russian businessman who is a co-owner of and , the largest private rail operator in Russia, CIS, and the Baltic states. He is a major investor in American Ethane and serves on its board. Late July 2018, his net worth was estimated at $1.2 billion. He allegedly is a financial supporter of Maria Butina. Through Igor Levitin, Alexey Mordashov, Arkady Rotenberg, Gennady Timchenko, and Alexander Voloshin, Konstantin Nikolaev is a partner and close associate of numerous persons in Vladimir Putin's inner circle. In 1996, Nikolaev, Nikita Mishin, Andrei Filatov, and Alexey Mordashov
Arkady Aronov field which eventually opened the whole research field of electrons in random magnetic field, useful for understanding the quantum Hall effect. Two symposia were held in memory of Arkady Aronov, one in Zikhron Ya'akov by Weizmann Institute of Science, where Aronov was a faculty member, in 1996, and another one in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, where he spent extensive periods of time, in 2009. Arkady Aronov Arkady Girshevich Aronov (; July 26, 1939 in Leningrad, Soviet Union – November 13, 1994 in Rehovot, Israel) was a Russian and Israeli theoretical condensed matter physicist, notable for his achievements in physics of