Alexei Vasilievich Shubnikov | |
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Born | March 29, 1887 |
Died | April 27, 1970 | (aged 83)
Education | Moscow State University |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union |
Alexei Vasilievich Shubnikov (Russian: Алексей Васильевич Шубников; 29 March 1887 – 27 April 1970) was a Soviet crystallographer and mathematician. Shubnikov was the founding director of the Institute of Crystallography (named after him following his death) of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in Moscow. Shubnikov pioneered Russian crystallography and its application.[1]