Boris Borisovich Golitsyn

Boris Borisovich Golicyn.

Boris Borisovich Golitsyn , Prince Galitzine, ( Russian Борис Борисович Голицын , English transcription Boris Borisovich Galitzine, born February 18 ^{. Jul} / 2. March 1862 ^greg. In Saint Petersburg , † May 4 ^jul. / 17th May 1916 ^greg. In Petrograd ) was a Russian geophysicist and meteorologist.

Golitsyn came from the old Russian princely family Galitzin . He attended the school of the Moscow Cadet Corps, Lomonosov University (1891-1893) and the University of Strasbourg (1887). He was a professor at the University of Dorpat and later until his death (after a short illness near Saint Petersburg) head of the Meteorological Service of the Russian Empire (based in the Central Nikolas Observatory in Saint Petersburg and in the summer in the Constantine Observatory in nearby Pavlovsk ). He also gave lectures on physics at universities in Saint Petersburg such as the Medical School.

Galitsyn is known for inventing the electrodynamic seismograph in 1904.

In 1911 he became president of the International Seismological Society, today's International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior . In 1912 he gave a plenary lecture at the ICM in Cambridge on his seismograph .

He was a foreign member of the Royal Society and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences . In 1913 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . A lunar crater and a Russian ship were named after him ( Akademik Golizyn ).

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Lectures on seismometry, 1912 (Russian and German)

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↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 89.
↑ Boris Borissowitsch Golizyn in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS

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SURNAME	Golitsyn, Boris Borisovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Голицын, Борис Борисович (Russian); Galitzine, Boris Borisovich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 2, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH	May 17, 1916
Place of death	at Petrograd

[1] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 89.

[2] Boris Borissowitsch Golizyn in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS