Leonid Mandelstam
Leonid Mandelstam · Science & Medicine
Physicist; co-discovered Raman scattering, radiophysics
1879, Mogilev, Russian Empire (now Belarus) — 1944, Moscow, Soviet Union
Russian Empire · Soviet Union · Strasbourg
Leonid Mandelstam is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; co-discovered Raman scattering, radiophysics
Leonid Mandelstam was a founder of the Soviet school of radiophysics and, with Grigory Landsberg, co-discovered the combinational (Raman) scattering of light in crystals in 1928, independently of Raman's work. He made deep contributions to the theory of nonlinear oscillations and to optics. He was born into a Jewish family in Mogilev.
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Physicist; co-discovered Raman scattering, radiophysics
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