Yevgeny Fyodorowitsch Gross
Evgeni Fjodorowitsch Gross ( Russian Евгений Фёдорович Гросс , English transcription Evgenii Fedorovich Gross; born October 8, 1897 in Kolpino , † April 4, 1972 in Leningrad ) was a Soviet experimental solid-state physicist.
Gross studied at the Leningrad State University , where he graduated in 1924 and was a professor from 1938. From 1944 he was at the Joffe Institute and from 1964 at the Semiconductor Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences .
In 1930 he observed the fine structure of spectral lines due to Brillouin scattering . In 1951 he experimentally demonstrated the existence of excitons (which Jakow Frenkel first theoretically predicted in 1931) and then examined their properties in detail.
In 1946 he became a corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In 1946 he received the State Prize of the USSR , in 1966 the Lenin Prize and the Order of Lenin .
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| SURNAME | Gross, Yevgeny Fyodorovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Гросс, Евгений Фёдорович |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kolpino |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 4th 1972 |
| Place of death | Leningrad |