Abstract :
Life Fellow IEEE, founder of the statistical antenna theory, Professor Yakov Solomonovich Shifrin was born in the town Mstislavl (Belarus) on April 23, 1920. In 1941, he graduated with honors from the Leningrad State University with specialty in physics. Yakov Solomonovich is a man of unbending spirit and morality. He took part in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945, fighting against fascism. In 1944–1945, he had been a commander of radar units. He had been the first lecturer of radiolocation with the Sevastopol school of antiaircraft artillery in 1945–1948.
