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Grigori Landsberg

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Grigori Landsberg · Science & Medicine

What

Physicist; co-discovered the Raman (combinational) scattering of light

When

1890, Vologda, Russian Empire — 1957, Moscow, Soviet Union

Where

Russia · Soviet Union

Biography

Grigori Landsberg is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; co-discovered the Raman (combinational) scattering of light

How & why

Landsberg, with Leonid Mandelstam, discovered the combinational (Raman) scattering of light in crystals in 1928, independently of and simultaneously with the effect observed in liquids by C. V. Raman. He was a leading Soviet spectroscopist and a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He was of Jewish origin.

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Physicist; co-discovered the Raman (combinational) scattering of light

1890

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics