Abram Ioffe

Abram Ioffe
Абрам Иоффе
Born
Abram Fedorovich Ioffe

(1880-10-29)29 October 1880[1]
Died14 October 1960(1960-10-14) (aged 79)[1]
Alma materMunich University (PhD 1905); Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology (1902)[1]
AwardsLenin Prize (1961)
Order of Lenin[1]
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsState Institute of Roentgenology and Radiology; Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute[1]
Doctoral advisorWilhelm Röntgen
Doctoral studentsNikolay Semyonov
Pyotr Lukirsky
Pyotr Kapitsa
Signature

Abram Fedorovich[a] Ioffe (Russian: Абра́м Фёдорович Ио́ффе, IPA: [ɐˈbram ˈfʲɵdərəvʲɪtɕ ɪˈofɛ]; 29 October [O.S. 17 October] 1880 – 14 October 1960) was a prominent Soviet physicist. He received the Stalin Prize (1942), the Lenin Prize (1960) (posthumously), and the Hero of Socialist Labor (1955). Ioffe was an expert in various areas of solid state physics and electromagnetism. He established research laboratories for radioactivity, superconductivity, and nuclear physics, many of which became independent institutes.


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