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Igor Dzyaloshinsky

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Igor Dzyaloshinsky · Science & Medicine

What

Physicist; the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in magnetism

When

1931, Moscow, Russia — 2021, Irvine, California, United States

Where

Russia · United States

Biography

Igor Dzyaloshinsky is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in magnetism

How & why

Igor Dzyaloshinskii was a Soviet-American theoretical physicist who explained the weak ferromagnetism of certain antiferromagnets, work formalized as the Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction, now central to spintronics and skyrmion research. He was of documented Jewish origin. He worked at the Landau Institute and later the University of California, Irvine.

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Physicist; the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in magnetism

1931

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics