Georgi Georgievich de Metz

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Georgi De-Metz 1901

Georgi Georgijewitsch de Metz ( Russian Георгий Георгиевич де Метц , Ukrainian Георгій Георгійович Де-Метц Heorhiy Heorhijowytsch de Metz ; born May 8 jul. / 20th May  1861 greg. In Odessa , Kherson Gubernia , Russian Empire ; † 9. March 1947 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Russian physicist, methodologist and university rector. He was an authority on radioactivity.

Life

Georgi de Metz was born in Odessa, the son of a Belgian engineer, where he successfully graduated from high school in 1881 and in the same year began studying at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at Novorossiysk University , which he graduated with an excellent candidate degree in May 1885. In 1887 he received a scholarship from the university to prepare for a professorship at the University of Strasbourg . On his return he worked at the Institute of Physics at Novorossiysk University and in 1888 received the title of Privatdozent. On October 12, 1889, he received a master's degree in physics and on May 31, 1891, after defending his dissertation, he was confirmed as a doctor of physics.

In 1892 he became an associate professor at the Institute of Physics at St. Vladimir University in Kiev and in 1896 a full professor. From autumn 1896 he also worked on the committee for the establishment of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute . In 1913 he was awarded the title of Full Professor and in 1917 he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics. After Mykola Zytowytsch resigned as rector of St. Vladimir University, he held the post from October 7 to November 28, 1917, a period of just 53 days. During his rectorate on October 30, 1917, a department for Polish language was established in the Faculty of History and Philology. He was then rector of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute from 1919 to 1920, rector of the State University of the Kuban Region in Krasnodar in 1921 and between 1934 and 1947 he was the head of the Department of Physics and Mathematics of the Kiev Pedagogical Institute . He died in Kiev at the age of 85 and was buried in the Lukjanivska cemetery .

De Metz was a pioneer in the research and application of X-rays, authoring articles on various fields of physics, as well as textbooks and manuals for students, which were published in Ukrainian from 1929 onwards. Between 1906 and 1917 he was the publisher and editor of the specialist magazine "Физическое обозрение".

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website on Georgi Georgievich de Metz on the website of the National Technical University "KPI" ; accessed on September 17, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ Article Patrons and Founders of KPI in day.kyiv of April 24, 2008; accessed on September 17, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Georgi De-Metz on the website of the Taras Shevchenko National University ; accessed on September 17, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ a b c entry on Georgi de Metz in Brockhaus-Efron ; accessed on September 17, 2018 (Russian)
  5. ^ Entry on Heorhij de Metz in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on September 17, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  6. ^ Entry on Heorhij de Metz in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on September 17, 2018 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME De Metz, Georgi Georgievich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES де Метц, Георгий Георгиевич (Russian); Де-Метц, Георгій Георгійович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian physicist, methodologist and university rector
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa , Kherson Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1947
Place of death Kiev , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union