Dmitri Skobeltsyn
Dmitri Vladimirovich Skobeltsyn (Russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Скобельцын; 24 November 1892, Saint Petersburg – 16 November 1990, Moscow) was a Soviet physicist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1946), Hero of Socialist Labour (1969).
Starting in 1923, Skobeltsyn pioneered the use of the cloud chamber[1] to study the Compton effect.
As a result of this work, Skobeltsyn paved the way for Carl David Anderson's discovery of the positron by two important contributions: by adding a magnetic field to his cloud chamber (in 1925[2]), and by discovering charged particle cosmic rays,[3] for which he is credited in Anderson's Nobel lecture.[4]
Awards and honors
- Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (1944, 1945)
- Six Orders of Lenin (1949, 1953, 1962, 1969, 1972, 1975)
- Stalin Prize, 1st class (1951)
- Hero of Socialist Labour (1969)
- Lenin Prize (1982)
- Order of the October Revolution (1982)
References
- ^ Cowan, Eugene (November 1982). "The Picture That Was Not Reversed". Engineering & Science. 46 (2): 6–28.
- ^ Bazilevskaya, G.A. (2014). "Skobeltsyn and the early years of cosmic particle physics in the Soviet Union". Astroparticle Physics. 53: 61–66. Bibcode:2014APh....53...61B. doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2013.05.007.
- ^ Skobeltsyn, D. (1929). "Uber eine neue Art sehr schneller beta-Strahlen". Z. Phys. 54 (9–10): 686–702. Bibcode:1929ZPhy...54..686S. doi:10.1007/BF01341600. S2CID 121748135.
- ^ Anderson, Carl D. (1936). "The Production and Properties of Positrons". Retrieved 10 August 2020.
External links
- Skobeltsyn's photo – from the Russian Academy of Sciences
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