Lev Gutkin

Lev Solomonovich Gutkin (; 22 November 1914 – 9 February 2011) was a Russian scientist and a specialist in the field of radio engineering and the theory of radio reception. Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Honoured worker of Science and Technology of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and laureate of USSR State Prize.

In July 1941, although having heart disease, he volunteered to serve in Red Army. At the rank of private he fought in a radio company of a tank division in the southwestern direction of the Kalinin Front. He was promoted to the rank of junior lieutenant and was assigned to the post of radio control assistant to the commander of the armored mechanized forces of Kalinin Front. In 1943, the State Defense Committee, on the petition of Valeria Golubtsova, director of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, he was recalled together with the group of young specialists to work there.

After the war, Gutkin led the research work in the institute related to the analysis and development of complex radio engineering systems. This work played a big role in the development of radio engineering in the USSR. In 1952, Gutkn defended his doctoral dissertation, which in 1953 was published in the form of a monograph under the title "Transformation and detection of ultrahigh frequencies". In 1956 he was awarded the academic title of professor.

He died on 9 February 2011 in Moscow.