Lev Vladimirovich Myssovsky

Lev Wladimirowitsch Myssowski ( Russian Лев Владимирович Мысовский ; born February 18, 1888 in Saratow , † August 29, 1939 in Leningrad ) was a Russian physicist.

Myssovsky was the son of a military doctor and went to school in Odessa . He studied physics in Saint Petersburgand after graduation was initially a teacher. In 1918 he joined the Röntgen Institute, where he helped to set up the radium department. When the Radium Institute was founded in 1922, he became head of the physics department. In addition to radioactive elements and nuclear physics, he dealt with cosmic radiation, doing pioneering work in the Soviet Union (dependence on air pressure and geographical latitude, absorption in lakes, use of emulsions for detection, detection of neutrons in cosmic radiation in cloud chambers, etc.) , and accelerator technology. He also taught at the Leningrad Polytechnic and the Leningrad Agricultural University.

From 1932 he and Kurtschatow built their own cyclotron at the Radium Institute based on the model of the cyclotron in Berkeley, which went into operation in 1937. This was the first larger European cyclotron, apart from the pioneering work by Jean Thibaud in France, which received little attention.

He also used gamma ray sources to detect defects in metal plates.

Fonts

Cosmic Rays, 1929 (Russian)

Web links

MG Meshcheryakov, NA Perfilov: In memory of Lev Vladimirovich Mysovskiĭ (on the seventy-fifth anniversary of his birth), Sov. Phys. Usp. 6, 1964, 945-946 (Russian) , and other Russian articles by Myssowski

Individual evidence

↑ As the first in the Soviet Union, Vitaly Grigoryevich Chlopin researched radium
↑ Suggestions are also said to have come from George Gamow , who, however, left Russia in 1933. In his autobiography "My World Line", Gamow does not mention his involvement, but he was at the Radium Institute and the University of Leningrad.

personal data
SURNAME	Myssovsky, Lev Vladimirovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Мысовский, Лев Владимирович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 18, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH	Saratov
DATE OF DEATH	August 29, 1939
Place of death	Leningrad

[1] As the first in the Soviet Union, Vitaly Grigoryevich Chlopin researched radium

[2] Suggestions are also said to have come from George Gamow , who, however, left Russia in 1933. In his autobiography "My World Line", Gamow does not mention his involvement, but he was at the Radium Institute and the University of Leningrad.