Yevgeny Grigoryevich Jachontov
Yevgeny Grigoryevich Jachontow ( Russian Евгений Григорьевич Яхонтов * February 7 . Jul / 19th February 1896 greg. In Warsaw ; † 16th December 1964 ) was a Russian physicist and university teacher .
Life
Jachontow studied at the University of Petrograd in the mathematical department of the mathematical- physical faculty with graduation in 1918. From 1914 he worked in the group of Dmitri Roschdestvensky , which began to produce optical glass in the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory St. Petersburg . When the new Optics Institute (GOI) was set up after the Roschdestvensky October Revolution in 1918 , Jachontow was transferred to the GOI and stayed there until his death.
1927–1936 Jachontow advised the State Institute for Telemechanics and Communication and participated in the development of optics for sound film . In 1930 he designed the optical system for the TOMP-4 film projector in AF Schorin's laboratory .
1930–1934 Jachontow headed the chair for optics at the Leningrad Institute for Film and Television (LIKI) as a professor .
In 1936 Jachontow was arrested as part of the Stalin purges and sentenced to 8 years in a labor camp with deprivation of civil rights for another 5 years. In 1940 the sentence was overturned and the renegotiation resulted in an acquittal for lack of evidence.
Back at the GOI, Jachontow headed the photo optics department. In 1943 he received his doctorate in technical sciences . He received the Stalin Prize III in 1946 for the development of new aerial photography lenses . Class together with GG Slyusarev . In 1947 he became head of the laboratory. He led the development of the objectives for the first Soviet microscopes .
Honors
- Stalin Prize III. Class (1946) for the development of novel aerial photography lenses
- Medal "For heroic work in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Medal "On the 250th anniversary of Leningrad"
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c ЯХОНТОВ Евгений Григорьевич (accessed February 4, 2017).
- ↑ ПАМЯТНЫЕ ДАТЫ 2011года: Яхонтов Евгений Григорьевич (accessed February 4, 2017) . In: Rozhdestvensky Optical Society Bulletin . No. 136 , 2011, pp. 17 .
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| SURNAME | Jachontow, Yevgeny Grigoryevich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Яхонтов, Евгений Григорьевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian physicist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 16, 1964 |