Boris P. Stoicheff, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Boris P. Stoicheff

Canadian physicist

Date of Birth: 01-Jun-1924

Place of Birth: Bitola, Bitola Municipality, North Macedonia

Date of Death: 15-Apr-2010

Profession: physicist

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Boris P. Stoicheff

  • Boris P.
  • Stoicheff, , (June 1, 1924 – April 15, 2010) was a Macedonian Canadian physicist. Stoicheff was born in Bitola, in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (present-day North Macedonia).
  • He emigrated with his family to Canada as a young child in 1931, and grew up in Toronto.
  • He earned a degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Toronto in 1947, and a PhD from the same institution in 1950.
  • He stayed for another year at Toronto on a fellowship, then went to the University of Ottawa to work as a postdoctoral researcher in a lab headed by Gerhard Herzberg, where he worked on Raman scattering.Stoicheff became well-known for his Raman spectroscopy through the 1950s, publishing a number of previously unavailable high-resolution molecular spectra.
  • In 1953 he was promoted to a permanent research position with assistants.
  • In 1954, he married his wife Joan, and they had a son, Peter Stoicheff, in 1956 (who would go on to become the President of the University of Saskatchewan).
  • In the late 1950s, he became interested in Brillouin scattering, and attempted to build a laser, though Theodore Maiman succeeded in doing so first.
  • Stoicheff nonetheless soon built the first laser in Canada, and researched using it for spectroscopy.
  • He spent a sabbatical year in 1963 at MIT, working with Charles Townes and some of Townes's graduate students on the same subject, and in 1964 took a professorship at the University of Toronto.In the late 1970s he changed focus from Brillouin spectroscopy to Rydberg spectroscopy.
  • He retired in 1989, though continued to perform research.
  • By 2000, he was working on the origin of diffuse interstellar bands.

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