Semyon Petrovich Schubin

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Semyon Petrovich Schubin

Semjon Petrovich Schubin ( Russian Семён Петрович Шубин , scientific transliteration Semën Petrovič Šubin , often cited in English as SPShubin; * July 31, 1908 ; † November 28, 1938 ) was a Russian theoretical physicist.

Schubin's father was a journalist and on the Executive Committee of the Comintern . The family moved a lot in Ukraine during the civil war . From 1921 to 1922 Schubin attended a technical vocational school in Kharkiv and began to study physics from autumn 1923 at the Kharkiv People's Education Center and then at the Lomonossow University in Moscow . In 1928 he took his diploma from Leonid Mandelstam and received his doctorate (Russian candidate thesis) in 1931. He then worked as a research assistant at Mandelstam, where he also received his habilitation in 1934 (Russian doctor).

As early as 1927 he was expelled from the Komsomol because of " Trotskyist " opposition, but in 1929 he confessed his " error " ( printed in Pravda in February 1930 ). For this reason he also volunteered six months in 1931/2 to build the Magnitogorsk iron and steel works . After that he stayed in the Urals and became a professor of theoretical physics at the Technical University of the Urals in Sverdlovsk . He was also head of the theory group of the Urals Physical-Technical Institute. On April 27, 1937, he was arrested and sentenced to eight years in a Gulag camp. He died in the camp the following year.

Schubin is best known for his work in theoretical solid-state physics (quantum theory of metals), partly in collaboration with Sergei Wonsowski . But he also worked in quantum electrodynamics and the theory of vibrations. In a letter from 1953, Mandelstam compared his talent with Andrei Sakharov .

Fonts

  • SP Schubin Selected Works, Biography, Memoirs , Sverdlovsk-Yekaterinburg 1991 (Russian).

literature

  • Gennady Gorelik: "My anti-Soviet activity ..." Russian physicist under Stalin . Vieweg, Braunschweig et al. 1995, ISBN 3-528-06584-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Handwritten curriculum vitae from 1934, printed in Gennady Gorelik: "My anti-Soviet activity ..." Russian physicist under Stalin . Vieweg, Braunschweig et al. 1995, ISBN 3-528-06584-2 , p. 163.
  2. ↑ Gennady Gorelik: "My anti-Soviet activity ..." Russian physicist under Stalin . Vieweg, Braunschweig et al. 1995, ISBN 3-528-06584-2 , p. 165.
personal data
SURNAME Schubin, Semyon Petrovich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1908
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1938