Pyotr Nikolayevich Lebedev

Pyotr Lebedev

Pyotr Lebedev ( Russian Пётр Николаевич Лебедев * February 24 ^{. Jul} / 8. March 1866 ^greg. In Moscow , † March 1 ^jul. / 14. March 1912 ^greg. ) Was a Russian physicist. The Lebedev Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is named after him.

Lebedev attended the German school at the Lutheran Moscow Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul and then studied at the Imperial Moscow School of Technology. Before graduating, he went to Strasbourg to study further with his father's money . Lebedew studied physics with August Kundt at the University of Strasbourg , where he received his doctorate in 1891 . In 1900 he became a professor at Lomonosov University in Moscow.

In 1900 Lebedew was able to demonstrate the radiation pressure experimentally and thus provided a confirmation of Maxwell's theory of electrodynamics. He also researched the birefringence of electrical waves and the earth's magnetic field .

In 1910 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

literature

Юрий А. Рамов: Физики. Биографические Словари. Наука, Москва 1983, p. 158, (Russian).

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↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 147.

personal data
SURNAME	Lebedev, Pyotr Nikolayevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Лебедев, Пётр Николаевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 8, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moscow
DATE OF DEATH	March 14, 1912
Place of death	Moscow