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Vladimir Perel

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Vladimir Perel · Science & Medicine

What

Physicist; spin relaxation and semiconductor physics

When

1928, Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union — 2007, Russia

Where

Soviet Union · Russia

Biography

Vladimir Perel is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; spin relaxation and semiconductor physics

How & why

Perel was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist at the Ioffe Institute in Leningrad, best known for the Dyakonov-Perel mechanism of electron spin relaxation in semiconductors and for the theoretical prediction (with Mikhail Dyakonov) of the spin Hall effect, foundational results for the field of spintronics. He received the USSR State Prize in 1975. He was of Jewish origin.

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Physicist; spin relaxation and semiconductor physics

1928

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics