Jakow Petrovich Terlezki

Jakow Petrovich Terlezki ( Russian Яков Петрович Терлецкий ; English transcription Yakov Petrovich Terletsky; born June 30, 1912 in Saint Petersburg ; † November 15, 1993 ) was a Soviet theoretical physicist.

Terlezki studied from 1936 in Moscow at the Lomonossow University , where he received his doctorate in 1939. Before the Second World War, he had dealt with accelerator physics and developed a theory of betatron . In 1945 he completed his habilitation (Russian doctorate) at Lomonossow University and became a professor there. From 1963 he was a professor at the University of International Friendship Patrice Lumumba . In 1971 he was a visiting scholar in Uppsala .

In 1951 he received the Stalin Prize and in 1972 the Lenin Prize .

At the end of the 1940s he was commissioned as a physicist by the KGB to analyze western research in the field of nuclear technology. Part of the reason was that he was an outsider on nuclear physics issues and Lavrenti Beria used his information to control the Kurchatov physicists who were working on the Soviet atomic bomb (Kurchatov, like many of the Soviet atomic bomb project physicists, came from the Abram Joffe's Leningrad School , with which Terlezki was not connected). Also Pawel Sudoplatow remembers that one as Yakov Zeldovich not sent to Bohr, since one leading physicists wanted to allow any contacts in the West and wanted to control their information and access to Western literature. Beria sent Terlezki to Niels Bohr in Copenhagen in November 1945 to investigate him. However, in Terlezki's own words, the meeting was a failure because Bohr - who had informed the authorities - did not pass on any details beyond what had already been published; For example, he handed over the official Smyth Report , which, however, did contain important information for the development of Soviet nuclear technology. Sudoplatov, on the other hand, spoke in his memoirs of much more detailed information that Bohr provided, which, however, has been criticized. Beria herself spoke of a success with Stalin , however . Terlezki was working at the KGB as an officer analyzing western information about nuclear technology.

He is known for his work on the paradoxes of the theory of relativity and tachyons . He introduced the tachyon concept as early as 1960. Like Hermann Bondi in Great Britain, he speculated about forms of propulsion that would be made possible if matter with an exotic equation of state existed ( negative energy ). He was also not averse to occult subjects.

Fonts

• Paradoxes in the theory of relativity. Plenum Press, New York NY 1968, 2nd edition 1970.

Web links

• Biography. Uspekhi Fiz. Nauk. 1994, Russian, PDF.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Terletskij, Terletzki, Yakov P. Terletskii, Jakov Petrovič Terleckij and other forms are also used.
2. ↑ Alexei Kojevnikov: Stalin's Great Science. Imperial College Press 2004, p. 149.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Pavel Sudoplatov, Special Tasks. Memories.
4. ^ ^{A b} Roald Sagdejew : How the Soviets got the bomb. Popular Science, August 1994. Google Books Digitalisat page 28ff.
5. ↑ Western secret services even feared that Bohr would be kidnapped: Secret files reveal plan to kidnap Bohr. ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Physics World 1998. 
6. ^ Robert Forward: Negative Matter Propulsion. Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 6, 1990, pp. 28-37. Miguel Alcubierre later pursued similar ideas , see warp drive .
7. ↑ On March 17, 1968, he wrote in Pravda about new and unknown forms of energy in the medium Nina Kulagina studied by Soviet scientists . The Psychic Powers of Nina Kulagina. On: MysteriousPeople.com.