Yakov Frenkel
Yakov Frenkel · Science & Medicine
Physicist; solid-state theory, excitons and the Frenkel defect
1894, Rostov-on-Don, Russian Empire — 1952, Leningrad, Soviet Union
Russia · Soviet Union
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Frenkel was a leading Soviet theoretical physicist who laid foundations of solid-state physics, introducing the concept of the exciton and describing the point crystal defect now named the 'Frenkel defect' after him. Born into a Russian Jewish family, he worked for most of his career at the Ioffe Institute in Leningrad and wrote influential textbooks that trained a generation of Soviet physicists. His theory of thermal atomic motion in solids and liquids remains foundational.
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Physicist; solid-state theory, excitons and the Frenkel defect
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