Vsevolod Frederiks, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Vsevolod Frederiks

Russian physicist

Date of Birth: 13-Apr-1885

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 06-Jun-1944

Profession: physicist

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Vsevolod Frederiks

  • Vsevolod Konstantinovich Frederiks (or FrĂ©edericksz; Russian: ???????? ?????????????? ????????? pronounced ['v?s??v???d f?r??d??'r?iks]; April 29, 1885, Warsaw – January 6, 1944, Gorkiy) was a Russian/Soviet physicist.
  • His primary contribution to physics was in the field of liquid crystals.
  • The Frederiks transition was named after him. After high school Frederiks attended Geneva University and for one semester attended the lectures of Paul Langevin in Paris.
  • After defending his thesis and obtaining his PhD, Fredericks decided to continue his studies at Göttingen University.
  • He was there for more than eight years, and with the outbreak of World War I he became a civil prisoner.
  • During that period he became personal assistant to David Hilbert. In the summer of 1918 Frederiks returned to Russia, and worked at the Institute of Physics and Biophysics in Moscow.
  • In 1919 he became a lecturer at the University of Petrograd. He was arrested by the NKVD in 1937.
  • Although released before World War II, he died before reaching home.

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