Исаак Павлович Гинзбург к 100-летию со дня рождения

This article is devoted to the 100-th anniversary of the outstanding scientist, professor Isaac Pavlovich Ginzburg, and describes the main stages of his scientific and educational work. After graduating from the Mathematics and Mechanics faculty of the Leningrad State University in 1931, he mostly worked in the Leningrad University, as well as in the Leningrad Institute for Military Mechanics.The main achievement of Ginzburg as an educator was supervising 123 Candidate and about 30 Doctoral dissertations. His contribution to science includes creation of the theory for the fluids and gas resistance and also his theoretical and experimental results on supersonic jet flows. These results were employed in developing space and aviation technologies.