Vladimir Pavlovich Linnik

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Vladimir Pavlovich Linnik ( Russian Владимир Павлович Линник , English transcription: Vladimir Pavlovich Linnik * June 24 . Jul / 6. July  1889 . Greg in Kharkiv ; † 9 July 1984 in Komarowo ) was a Soviet physicist who in the field of Optics worked.

Life

After finishing school, Linnik studied from 1909 at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Kiev . After graduating in 1914, he worked as a teacher until 1918 and also worked in the university's physics laboratory. From 1918 he lived in Bila Zerkwa , where he taught physics at a technical center for agriculture. In 1923 he moved to the Kiev Polytechnic Institute . From 1926 worked in a company of the state optical industry and became head of a laboratory for optical precision devices. In 1934 he was also appointed professor at the Leningrad University, where he worked until 1941. After the end of World War II, he worked at the Pulkovo Observatory from 1946 to 1958 .

In addition to his contributions to crystal structure analysis using X-rays, his scientific field of work was the development of various optical instruments. He was particularly interested in the construction of such instruments, including various special interferometers, for astronomy. He is considered one of the initiators of modern adaptive optics .

In 1939 he was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . Linnik has received many awards. In 1969 he became a hero of socialist labor . In 1973 he received the S. I. Wawilow gold medal for his achievements in the field of optical astronomy .

He died in Komarowo near Leningrad in 1984.

The well-known mathematician Juri Linnik (1915–1972) was his son.

literature

  • OA Melnikow: Vladimir Pawlowitsch Linnik - for his 75th birthday and 50 years of scientific activity . In: Uspekhi Fiz. Nauk . tape 84 , no. 1 , 1964, pp. 195-197 (Russian).
  • Vladimir Pavlovich Linnik: Autobiography (August 20, 1937). (PDF) Library of the Irkutsk State Technical University, accessed on June 25, 2018 (in Russian, with the reasons for the election as academician from 1938 by SI Vavilov).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the Russian Academy since 1724: Vladimir Pawlowitsch Linnik. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed June 25, 2018 (in Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Linnik, Vladimir Pavlovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Линник, Владимир Павлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Kharkiv
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1984
Place of death Komarovo