Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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PHYSICAL INSTITUTE, located at 7/9 Universitetskaya Embankment, was established in 1725 as part of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences as the Physics Study (before 1912). In 1912-21, it was transformed into the Physics Laboratory of the Academy of Sciences. In 1921, the laboratory was united with the Mathematics Study of the Academy of Sciences into the Institute of Physics and Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences. In 1932, the Physics Department of the institute was separated into the independent Physical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, which was transferred to Moscow in 1934. The institute became famous for such research assistants as V. V. Petrov (discoverer of electrical arc), founders of domestic electrical engineering E. H. Lenz and B. S. Jakoby, author of the first ever full course of physics O. D. Khvolson, founder of domestic seismology B. B. Golitsyn, author of essential works in luminescence and spectrum analysis S. I. Vavilov who became a director of the Physical Institute in 1932.

References: Вавилов С. И. Физический кабинет - Физическая лаборатория - Физический институт Академии наук за 220 лет // Успехи физ. наук. 1946. Т. 28, вып. 1. С. 1-50.

O. N. Ansberg. Golitsyn Boris Borisovich
Jakoby Boris Semenovich (Moritz Herman)
Khvolson Orest Danilovich
Lenz Emily Hristianovich
Petrov Vasily Vladimirovich
Vavilov Sergey Ivanovich
Universitetskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 7/9
Вавилов С. И. Физический кабинет - Физическая лаборатория. - Физический институт Академии наук за 220 лет // Успехи физ. наук, 1946