Leonid Mandelshtam | |
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Born | 4 May 1879 Mogilev, Russian Empire |
Died | 27 November 1944 Moscow, USSR |
(aged 65)
Scientific career | |
Doctoral advisor | Karl Ferdinand Braun |
Doctoral students |
Aleksandr Andronov, Mikhail Leontovich, Sergey Rytov, Igor Tamm |
Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam or Mandelshtam (Belarusian: Леанід Ісаакавіч Мандэльштам, Russian: Леонид Исаакович Мандельштам, IPA: [lʲɪɐˈnʲid isɐˈäkəvʲitɕ məndʲɪlʲˈʂtam] ( listen); 4 May 1879 – 27 November 1944) was a Soviet physicist of Belarusian-Jewish background.
Leonid Mandelstam was born in Mogilev, Russian Empire (now Belarus). He studied at the Novorossiya University in Odessa, but was expelled in 1899 due to political activities, and continued his studies at the University of Strasbourg. He remained in Strasbourg until 1914, and returned with the beginning of World War I. He was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1942. Mandelstam died in Moscow, USSR (now Russia).