Jakow Abramowitsch Smorodinski

Yakov Abramovich Smorodinski ( Russian Яков Абрамович Смородинский , English transcription Yakov Abramovich Smorodinsky * 20th December 1917 in Malaya Vishera , † 16th October 1992 in Dubna (Moscow) ) was a Soviet theoretical physicist who deals with nuclear physics and particle physics employed.

Smorodinski studied at the Leningrad State University from 1934 to 1939, especially with Matwei Petrovich Bronstein , who at that time fell victim to the Stalinist persecution, which also led to the arrest of other representatives of the faculty in Leningrad. In 1939 he graduated from LE Gurewitsch. He was then a student of Lew Landau (who was released from prison in 1939). In 1944 a joint work on proton-proton scattering appeared (JETP, Volume 14, p. 269) and he later published an introductory book on nuclear physics with Landau. From 1944 he worked in Laboratory 2 on secret research work on isotope separation of uranium in diffusion plants. From 1946 he was at the Institute for Physical Engineering in Moscow (MEPhI), founded in 1942. In 1948 he completed his habilitation (Russian doctorate) and in 1952 he became a professor. From 1956 he was at the accelerator center in Dubna in the laboratory for theoretical physics.

In the 1960s he published an influential work with Naum Jakowlewitsch Wilenkin on the representation theory of the Lorentz group and its application to the relativistic scattering theory. He also worked on this with his doctoral student Pavel Winternitz .

He edited many Russian translations of Western physics literature (including the works of Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Pauli, and Werner Heisenberg and Feynman's lectures on physics, and Martin Gardner's books on entertainment mathematics ) and was on the editorial board of scientific publishers such as Mir . His passions were books and he was a member of the Moscow Society of Bibliophiles. He edited an annotated edition of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll . He was the deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine Kernphysik (Ядерная физика) and one of the founders of the popular science magazine Quant .

literature

Obituaries by IV Komarov, Winternitz, Nyiri, Calogero and others. a. Physics of Atomic Nuclei, Volume 72, 2009, No. 5.
Landau, Smorodinsky Lectures on nuclear theory , New York, Consultants Bureau 1958, Dover 1993.
Smorodinsky Temperature , MIR Publishers, Moscow 1984.

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personal data
SURNAME	Smorodinski, Jakow Abramowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Смородинский, Яков Абрамович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	soviet physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 20, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH	Malaya Wischera
DATE OF DEATH	October 16, 1992
Place of death	Dubna