Matvei Bronstein
Matvei Bronstein · Science & Medicine
Theoretical physicist; early work on quantum gravity
1906, Vinnytsia, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) — 1938, Leningrad, Soviet Union
Soviet Union
Matvei Bronstein is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Theoretical physicist; early work on quantum gravity
Matvei Bronstein was a Soviet theoretical physicist and a pioneer of quantum gravity, whose 1930s work first showed the deep difficulty of quantising the gravitational field. He also wrote acclaimed popular-science books for children. Of Jewish descent, he was arrested during Stalin's Great Purge and executed in 1938 at the age of 31.
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Theoretical physicist; early work on quantum gravity
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