Prof. Sergei Anatoljevich Rakitianski
Born in Omsk in 1956. From 1973 to 1978, studied physics in Tashkent University (USSR). After that, during 19 years (1978 -1997) worked in the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna, Russia). In 1997 emigrated to South Africa where worked in the University of South Africa (UNISA, Pretoria). Since 2009, I am a Professor of Physics in the University of Pretoria.There is a confusion with the spelling of my surname. Originally, it is spelled in Cyrillic as Ракитянский . Since my first publication in an international journal, I spell it as "Rakityansky". However, when emigrated to South Africa, I was officially registered as "Rakitianski". As a result, I use the name "Rakitianski" for official documents, but "Rakityansky" for my research papers.