Eduard Shpolsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Eduard Shpolsky

Soviet physicist

Date of Birth: 11-Sep-1892

Place of Birth: Voronezh, Azov Governorate, Russia

Date of Death: 21-Aug-1975

Profession: physicist

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Eduard Vladimirovich Shpolsky, also Shpolsk'ii, Shpolskii (Russian: ?????? ???????????? ?????????, born September 23, 1892 in Voronezh – died August 21, 1975 in Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet physicist and educator, co-founder and lifelong editor of Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk journal (Soviet Physics Uspekhi and Physics-Uspekhi in English translation). Shpolsky primary scientific contribution belongs to the field of molecular spectroscopy, particularly luminescence and absorption spectra of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
In 1952 Shpolsky and his junior researchers A.
A.
Ilyina and L.
A.
Klimov discovered Shpolsky effect (Shpolskii matrixes, an optical analogy to Mössbauer effect) in organic compounds, a property that allows highly selective spectroscopic identification of substances that normally do not possess clearly defined spectral lines or bands.
The discovery evolved into a discipline of its own, Shpolsky spectroscopy.
Shpolsky authored the definitive Russian language university textbook on Atomic Physics, first printed in 1944 and reissued until 1974.