Arkadi Klimentjewitsch Timirjasew
Arkadi Klimentjewitsch Timirjasew ( Russian Аркадий Климентьевич Тимирязев ; born October 19, 1880 in Moscow ; † November 15, 1955 ibid) was a Soviet physicist and philosopher .
Timirjasew, a son of the famous plant physiologist Kliment Arkadjewitsch Timirjasew , was a graduate of Moscow University and after the revolution of 1917 professor of physics there and at the Communist Academy. In the 1920s he was one of the spokesmen for the mechanicists and from 1931 on the editorial team of the magazine “Under the banner of Marxism”. After the Second World War he devoted himself to studying the life's work of the classics of Russian physics: Lomonossow , Stoletow and Lebedew .
He was an opponent of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, whom he hated. As a physicist, he was insignificant. Timirsayev did not shrink from denouncing important scientists (such as Abram Fyodorovich Joffe ) in the name of Bolshevik ideology.
Timirjasew was close to Maxim Gorky and he was in the favor of Stalin, as he tried to show connections to physics in his works.
literature
- Gennadij E. Gorelik: "My anti-Soviet activity ...": Russian physicists under Stalin , Springer-Verlag 2013, ( digitalized )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Simon Ings , Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905–1953. Faber and Faber, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Timirjasew, Arkady Klimentievich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Тимирязев, Аркадий Климентьевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet physicist and philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 15, 1955 |
| Place of death | Moscow |