Lev Shubnikov | |
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Лев Васи́льевич Шу́бников | |
Born | Lev Vasilyevich Shubnikov September 29, 1901 |
Died | November 10, 1937 | (aged 36)
Alma mater | Leningrad Polytechnical Institute |
Known for | Shubnikov–de Haas effect Type II superconductors Antiferromagnetism |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Experimental physics Cryogenics |
Institutions | Ukrainian Physics and Technology Institute |
Doctoral advisor | Ivan Obreimov |
Lev Vasilyevich Shubnikov (Russian: Лев Васи́льевич Шу́бников, Ukrainian: Лев Васильович Шубников; 29 September 1901 – 10 November 1937) was a Soviet experimental physicist who worked in the Netherlands and USSR. He has been referred as the as 'the founding father of Soviet low-temperature physics'.[1] He is known for the discovery of the Shubnikov–de Haas effect and type-II superconductivity.[1] He also one of the first to discover antiferromagnetism.[2]
In 1937, he was executed during the Ukrainian Physics and Technology Institute Affair on the basis of falsified charges as part of the Great Purge.