Evgeni Gross, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Evgeni Gross

Russian physicist

Date of Birth: 08-Oct-1897

Place of Birth: Kolpino, Russia

Date of Death: 04-Apr-1972

Profession: physicist

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Evgenii Fedorovich Gross (1897 – 1972) was a Soviet physicist working in optics and spectroscopy of condensed matter. He was born into a Jewish family.
He graduated from Leningrad University in 1924.
He became a correspondent member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1946. His two key achievements are the experimental observation of the fine structure of Rayleigh scattering line due to Brillouin-Mandelstam light scattering on acoustic waves in condensed matter (1930) and the experimental discovery of the exciton (in semiconductor crystals of cuprous oxide) through evidence of its hydrogen-like optical spectrum.