Abram Ioffe
Soviet physicist
Died when: 79 years 351 days (959 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Abram Fedorovich Ioffe (Russian: ????´? ????????? ??´???, IPA: [?'bram 'f??d?r?v??t? ?'of?]; 29 October [O.S. 17 October] 1880 – 14 October 1960) was a prominent Russian/Soviet physicist.
He received the Stalin Prize (1942), the Lenin Prize (1960) (posthumously), and the Hero of Socialist Labor (1955).Ioffe was an expert in various areas of solid state physics and electromagnetism.
He established research laboratories for radioactivity, superconductivity, and nuclear physics, many of which became independent institutes.
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