David Weeks

Employees found out about his death in a message from the lab's president and vice president Monday, said spokesman David Weeks.

An accompanying bio said Ionov had studied physics at Moscow Physical Technical Institute, where he worked as a research assistant to Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, a Nobel laureate.He received a bachelor's and master's degree and his doctorate from the Institute of Spectroscopy in the Soviet Union and became the director of an experimental group at the Research Center for Technological Lasers at the Soviet Academy of Sciences.In 1980, he emigrated to the United States, where he did postdoctoral work at UCLA and USC.He became an American citizen in 1999, and had a wife, Irina, and a daughter, Sophi, the bio said.
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Weeks said Ionov had a previous close call on his bike, riding with friends in Westlake Village.
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One of the riders was killed, Weeks said.

Employees found out about his death in a message from the lab's president and vice president Monday, said spokesman David Weeks.

An accompanying bio said Ionov had studied physics at Moscow Physical Technical Institute, where he worked as a research assistant to Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, a Nobel laureate.He received a bachelor's and master's degree and his doctorate from the Institute of Spectroscopy in the Soviet Union and became the director of an experimental group at the Research Center for Technological Lasers at the Soviet Academy of Sciences.In 1980, he emigrated to the United States, where he did postdoctoral work at UCLA and USC.He became an American citizen in 1999, and had a wife, Irina, and a daughter, Sophi, the bio said.
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Weeks said Ionov had a previous close call on his bike, riding with friends in Westlake Village.
...
One of the riders was killed, Weeks said.

Employees found out about his death in a message from the lab's president and vice president Monday, said spokesman David Weeks.

An accompanying bio said Ionov had studied physics at Moscow Physical Technical Institute, where he worked as a research assistant to Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, a Nobel laureate.He received a bachelor's and master's degree and his doctorate from the Institute of Spectroscopy in the Soviet Union and became the director of an experimental group at the Research Center for Technological Lasers at the Soviet Academy of Sciences.In 1980, he emigrated to the United States, where he did postdoctoral work at UCLA and USC.He became an American citizen in 1999, and had a wife, Irina, and a daughter, Sophi, the bio said.
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Weeks said Ionov had a previous close call on his bike, riding with friends in Westlake Village.
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One of the riders was killed, Weeks said.