Pyotr Efimovich Spiwak
Pjotr Jefimowitsch Spiwak ( Russian Пётр Ефимович Спивак , English transcription: Petr Efimovich Spivak; * March 11th July / March 24th 1911 greg. In Saint Petersburg ; † March 30th 1992 in Moscow ) was a Russian physicist who worked in the field experimental nuclear physics worked.
Life
Spiwak graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute in 1936 . Then he worked until 1943 at the Physico-Technical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Leningrad. In 1943 he moved to Laboratory No. 2 , which later became the Kurchatov Institute. In 1949 he became laboratory manager there. His main field of work was beta decay and the physics of weak interaction . In the last decade of his life he devoted himself specifically to the question of the experimental determination of the neutrino mass .
In 1962 he was awarded the Kurchatov gold medal for his experimental investigations into the beta decay of the neutron . In 1964 he was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
literature
- AP Aleksandrov et al .: Petr Efimovich Spivak (on his eightieth birthday) . In: Soviet Physics Uspekhi . tape 34 , no. 7 , 1991, pp. 639-640 .
Web links
- Entry in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (Russian)
- A. Borovoi personal memories of Pyotr Spiwak (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724: Spiwak, Pjotr Efimowitsch. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed July 17, 2018 (Russian).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spiwak, Pyotr Efimovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Пётр Ефимович Спивак (Russian); Petr Efimovich Spivak (English transcription) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 1992 |
| Place of death | Moscow |