Khvolson О.D., (1852-1934), physicist

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KHVOLSON Orest Danilovich (1852, St. Petersburg - 1934, Leningrad), a physicist, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences from 1895, honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1920 and the Academy of Sciences of the USSR from 1925. He graduated from Petersburg University with a major in physics and mathematics in 1873 and worked at the university from 1876, promoted to Professor in 1890. He was also a teacher at the Electrotechnical Institute and Bestuzhev Higher Women's Courses. He wrote his major works on electricity, magnetics, photometry, and actinometry. He lived at 7 Universitetskaya Embankment from the early 1900s. Buried at the Smolenskoe Orthodox Cemetery.

References: Добиаш А. А. Орест Данилович Хвольсон: К полувековому юбилею его науч. работы // Журн. Рус. физ.-хим. о-ва при Ленингр. ун-те. Часть физ. 1926. Т. 58, вып. 2. С. 87-104.

O. N. Ansberg. Khvolson Orest Danilovich
Universitetskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 7
Добиаш А. А. Орест Данилович Хвольсон: К полувековому юбилею его науч. работы // Журн. Рус. физ.-хим. о-ва при Ленингр. ун-те. Часть физ., 1926 Russian Academy of Sciences
State University, St. Petersburg
State Electrotechnical University "LETI", St. Petersburg
Bestuzhev's Courses