Alexander Vladimirovich Voronel

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Alexander Wladimirowitsch Voronel ( Russian Александр Владимирович Воронель ; born September 30, 1931 in Leningrad ) is a Russian - Israeli physicist , university professor and publicist .

Life

Voronel was evacuated during the German-Soviet War . At the age of fourteen he was arrested in Chelyabinsk in 1946 for writing and distributing leaflets. He was sentenced to six months in a youth colony, from which he was released early on parole.

1954 closed Woronel his physics -Studies at the Kharkov University with honors. He then worked scientifically in the All-Russian Research Institute for Physical-Technical and Radiation-Technical Measurements in Mendeleev near Moscow . His main focus was the thermodynamics of phase transitions . His work has been noticed internationally. Together with his colleagues he showed experimentally that the specific heat of liquid argon , oxygen and nitrogen shows a strong divergence at the critical point , which could not be explained by the molecular field theory.

After Sinyavsky and Daniel were arrested in 1965, Woronel joined the movement in their defense. In the 1970s he was in the program for the repatriation of Jews from the USSR to Israel included. In 1972 his application to leave the country was refused, whereupon he lost his job and was socially isolated. 1972–1974 he founded and edited the samizdat magazine Jews in the USSR . In 1975 he managed to emigrate to Israel. He is Professor of Physics at Tel Aviv University . Since 1990 he has been editor-in-chief of the popular quarterly Russian- language literary magazine 22 in Tel Aviv .

Woronel is married to the dramaturge Nina Abramovna Woronel geb. Roginkina, editor of Magazine 22 , and has a son, Vladimir.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Union Moscow-Jerusalem 22: About Us (Russian, accessed July 13, 2016).
  2. ↑ Alexander Voronel (accessed July 13, 2016).
  3. ↑ Asya Shakhtina: Nina and Alexander Voronel as guests in the “Literature Salon” . In: Gemeindeblatt . September 2009, p. 53 .
  4. ↑ Professor Alexander Voronel ( Memento of 14 August 2014 Internet Archive ) (accessed on 13 July 2016).
  5. ↑ Нина Воронель: Без прикрас . Захаров, Moscow 2003, ISBN 5-8159-0313-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Voronel, Alexander Vladimirovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Воронель, Александр Владимирович (Russian); Voronel, Alexander Vladimirovich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Israeli physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad