Frenkel Y.I., (1894-1952), physicist

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FRENKEL Yakov Iliich (1894-1952, Leningrad), specialist in theoretical physics, Associate of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1929). He came to St. Petersburg in 1909. Here he graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of St. Petersburg University in 1916. The following year he went to Crimea, to live and work there. Frenkel returned to Petrograd in 1921 and was appointed the head of the theoretical department of the Physics-Technical Institute (memorial plaque). He also became professor at the Polytechnic Institute. He lived in Kazan from 1942 to 1944, having been evacuated during the Seige of Leningrad. His works dwell on the issues of molecular physics, the solid-state theory, nuclear physics, geophysics, astrophysics and biophysics. He was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1947. In the 1920s, Frenkel lived at 5 Yashumov Lane (present-day Kurchatova Street), after 1929 he resided in the first and the second professors' houses of the Polytechnic Institute. He was buried at Bogoslovskoe cemetery.

References: Френкель В. Я. Яков Ильич Френкель. М.; Л., 1966; Его же. Жар под пеплом: Новые штрихи к портр. Я. И. Френкеля // Звезда. 1991. № 9-10; Я. И. Френкель: Воспоминания, письма, док. 2-е изд., доп. Л., 1986.

O. N. Ansberg. Frenkel Yakov Ilyich
Kurchatova St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 5
Френкель В. Я. Яков Ильич Френкель. М.; Л., 1966
Я. И. Френкель: Воспоминания, письма, документы. 2-е изд., доп. Л., 1986 Russian Academy of Sciences
State University, St. Petersburg
Polytechnical University
Bogoslovskoe Cemetery