Yuri Borissowitsch Rumer

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Juri Borissowitsch Rumer ( Russian Юрий Борисович Румер , also known in the West as Georg Rumer; born April 28, 1901 in Moscow , † February 1, 1985 ) was a Soviet theoretical physicist.

Life

Rumer studied at Lomonosov University . From 1927 to 1932 he was with Max Born at the University of Göttingen , where he worked with Edward Teller , Hermann Weyl and Walter Heitler and Born (mainly on the quantum theory of chemical bonds). During this time he also met Albert Einstein several times in Berlin. From 1934 he worked under Igor Tamm at the Physical Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (FIAN) in Moscow. He was then at the Institute of Physics and Technology in Kharkov , where he worked with Lev Landau , with whom he was friends. In 1938 he was arrested as part of the " Great Purges ", along with Landau and his friend Korets (after the three of them wrote an anti-Stalinist leaflet), was in prison for a long time, and from 1944 worked on the Soviet atomic bomb project (in a secret special prison, a Sharashka, near Sukhumi ) and then had to go into exile in the Siberian district of Yenisseisk for five years , where he taught at a teachers' college. He was rehabilitated in the Khrushchev era.

He was director of the Institute for Radiophysics and Electronics in Novosibirsk , founded in 1962 , where laser research was carried out at the time. He was also a professor at the Novosibirsk State University . Later he was a researcher at the Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk.

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In his early years in Western Europe he dealt with general relativity , applications of quantum theory in chemistry, cosmic radiation, sound absorption in solids, the theory of Hilbert space and quantum electrodynamics .

With Landau he wrote a popular science book on relativity theory , which was also translated into German and English (1960). He also worked on general relativity and wrote essays and a Russian book on the five-dimensional Kaluza-Klein theory (published in 1956) while he was still in exile in Siberia.

Edward Shuryak was one of his students in Novosibirsk .

Fonts

  • with Landau: What is the theory of relativity. 13th edition. Teubner, 1989.

literature

  • Witali Ginsburg u. a .: Obituary in Sov. Phys. Uspekhi. Volume 29. 1986, p. 212.
  • Ilja Ginsburg, Michail Michailow (Rumer), Pokrowski: Yurii Borisovich Rumer (on the 100th anniversary of its birthday). In: Phys. Uspekhi. Volume 44. 2001, pp. 1075-1081 (in the appendix Rumer reports on his encounter with Einstein, p. 1082, from tape recordings of interviews 1962 by Livanova).
  • Anna Livanova: physicist about physicist. (Russian). Moscow 1968 (Rumer reports on his meeting with Einstein).
  • Margarita Ryutova-Kemoklidze: The quantum generation - highlights and tragedies of the golden age of physics. Springer 1994 (biography of Rumer).
  • People and things (Yurii Borisovich Rumer). CERN courier, Vol. 21. 1981, No. 5, p. 210.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the Institute for Laser Physics, Novosibirsk ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2017 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.laser.nsc.ru
  2. ↑ Short biography in McLerran The life and times of Edward Shuryak
  3. ↑ Rumer On an Extension of the General Theory of Relativity , Nachr.Akad. Knowledge Göttingen 1929, pp. 92–99 (about the five-dimensional expansion by Theodor Kaluza) , Rumer Zur Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie , Nachr. Akad. Wiss. Göttingen 1931, pp. 148-165
  4. ↑ Rumer, Heitler Quantum Chemistry of Polyatomic Molecules , Nachr.Akad. Knowledge Göttingen 1931, pp. 277–284 , Rumer, Heitler Quantum Theory of the Chemical Bond for Polyatomic Molecules , Zeitschrift für Physik, Volume 68, 1931, pp. 12–41, Rumer, Teller, Weyl A base of binary vector invariants suitable for valence theory , Nachr Akad. Wiss. Göttingen 1931, pp. 498–504 , Rumer Zur Theorie der Spinvalenz , Nachr. Akad. Wiss. Göttingen 1932, pp. 337-341
  5. ^ Lew Landau, Rumer, Production of showers by heavy particles , Nature, Volume 140, 1937, pp. 682 and The cascade theory of electronic showers , Proc. of the Royal Soc. London. Ser. A. Volume 166, 1938, pp. 213-228
  6. ↑ Landau, Rumer Uber Sound Absorption in Solid Bodies , Physical Journal of the Soviet Union, 1937, Vol. 11, pp. 18-25
  7. ↑ Rumer General transformation in hilbertian space , Nature, Vol. 130, 1932, p. 967, Rumer On the invariance in Hilbert Space , Physikalische Zeitschrift der Sowjetunion, Vol. 2, 1932, p. 281
  8. ↑ Rumer on the wave theory of the light quantum , Z. Phys., Vol. 65, 1930, pp. 244-252, Rumer, Max Born approaches to quantum electrodynamics , Z. Phys., Vol. 69, 1931, pp. 141-152, Rumer The current state of Dirac's theory of the electron , Z. Phys., Vol. 32, 1931, pp. 601-622, Rumer About the Zero Point Energy of the Cavity , Z. Phys., Vol. 69, 1931, pp. 664-665.
personal data
SURNAME Rumer, Yuri Borissowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Румер, Юрий Борисович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1985