Yuri Yappa
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| Born |
Template:Timothy Devlin January 3, 1991 Melbourne |
| Died | not |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | Saint Petersburg State University; JINR |
| Alma mater | Leningrad University |
| Influences | Vladimir Fock |
| Notable awards | Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad" |
Yuri Andreevich Yappa (Russian: Юрий Андреевич Яппа) (September 21, 1927 – August 19, 1998) was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist. He is known for publications on particle physics, quantum field theory, General Relativity, philosophy of science, and for his graduate texts on classical electrodynamics and theory of spinors.
Yuri Yappa was born in Leningrad, USSR in the family of doctor Andrei Yappa (German: Andreas Jappa, Russian: ).
In 1941, because of the German invasion in the Soviet Union and the Siege of Leningrad he had to interrupt his regular education and to start working. During the whole Siege of Leningrad he worked at the hospital where his father also worked. In 1944, he was awarded of medal "For the Defence of Leningrad". In parallel with the work in the hospital, he continued his self-education, so that in 1944 he passed exams for the entire course of the school and started to study at the Physical Faculty of the Leningrad University. During the winter of 1944-1945 he with a few other students alternated their studies with a work as stokers in the University's boiler-house. Yuri Yappa also started to work at the laboratory of molecular physics, but later, following an advice of its head Viktor Tsvetkov, joined a theoretical physics group.
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