The Life, Science and Times of Lev Vasilevich Shubnikov: Pioneer of Soviet Cryogenics

by L.J. Reinders

Book Overview

This book describes the life, times and science of the Soviet physicist Lev Vasilevich Shubnikov (1901-1937). From 1926 to 1930 Shubnikov worked in Leiden where he was the co-discoverer of the Shubnikov-De Haas effect. After his return to the Soviet Union he founded in Kharkov in Ukraine the first low-temperature laboratory in the Soviet Union, which in a very short time became the foremost physics institute in the country and among other things...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 331972097X
• ISBN13: 9783319720975
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 351 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"