Jakow Ilyich Frenkel

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Frenkel (center) with Alexander Goldman and Abram Joffe

Yakov Frenkel ( Russian Яков Ильич Френкель ., Scientific transliteration Jakov Frenkel Il'ič ; born January 29 . Jul / 10. February  1894 greg. In Rostov-on-Don , † 23. January 1952 in Leningrad ) was a Russian physicist.

Life

Frenkel was born into a Jewish family in Rostov-on-Don as the first child of Rosalija Abramovna Batkina and Ilja Abramowitsch Frenkel. After finishing school with honors, he began studying physics and mathematics at the University of St. Petersburg in 1913 , which he graduated in 1916. He then stayed at the university to prepare for a professorship.

In December 1920 he married Sarra Isaakovna Gordina in the Crimea , where he worked as a lecturer. In 1921 he became a research assistant at the Physikalisch-Technische Institut (FTI) of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Petrograd , where he stayed until his death. In 1925 he toured Europe.

Frenkel wrote numerous books in several areas of physics and was a corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences since 1929 . In 1930 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .

Best known are his contributions to solid state physics . The Frenkel defect , the 'Frenkel Kontorowa model' and the Frenkel exciton are named after him. The terms phonon and tunnel effect , which he used for the first time in his book “Wave Mechanics, Elementary Theory” in 1932, also go back to him.

Frenkel's sons Sergei and Wiktor were also physicists.

Publications

  • Statistical Physics. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1957
  • Principles of the theory of atomic nuclei. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1957
  • Kinetic theory of fluids. German Science Publishers, Berlin 1957

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724: Jakow Iljitsch Frenkel. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 15, 2019 (Russian).
  2. ↑ Jakow Ilyich Frenkel: Wave Mechanics. Elementary Theory. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1932.

literature

  • Viktor Jakowobisch Frenkel: Yakov Illich Frenkel . His work, life and letters. Birkhäuser, Basel / Boston / Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-7643-2741-5 (English, Russian: Яков Ильич Френкель . Translated by Alexander S. Silbergleit).

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personal data
SURNAME Frenkel, Jakow Ilyich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Френкель, Яков Ильич
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostov on Don
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1952
Place of death Leningrad