Lev Vasilievich Shubnikov
Maindates
1911-1918 |
- studies at M.A. Lentovskaya Gymnasium |
1918 |
- entered Physics and Mathematics Department of University (St. Petersburg) |
1919 |
- started work at State Optics Institute (initiated by D.S. Rozhdestvensky ) workshops |
1923-1926 |
- continues studies at Physics and Mechanics Department of Polytechnical Institutešš and works in I.V. Obreimov’s Laboratory of Physico-Technical Institutešestablished by A.F. Ioffe |
1924 |
- first scientific publication jointly with I.V. Obreimov in Zeitschrift fur Physik (a simple and reliable technique of growing large perfect single crystals of some metals was propoused) |
1925 |
- married to Olga Nikolaevna Trapeznikova, who became his friend and comradeš for life |
1926 June 7 |
- defended his diploma “Optical method of studying elastic and residualš deformations in crystals”, completed his education |
1926 Autumn |
- business trip to TheNetherlands: to Kamerling-Onnes Laboratory in Leiden whose chief was V.I. de Haas |
1926-1930 |
- worked in Leiden, discovered a new phenomenon now known as the Shubnikov-de Haas effect ( oscillations of magnetic resistance of bismuth at low temperatures), which stimulated a search and discovery of magnetic susceptibilityš oscillations (de Haas-van Alphen effect) |
1930, August.15 |
- taken on as a senior physicist at Ukrainian Physico-Technical Institute (UphTI, Kharkov) |
1931 |
- promoted to the position of the head of Cryogenic Laboratory at UPhTI |
1931 Autumn |
- Hock hydrogen liquefier started |
1932 |
- L.D. Landau moves to Kharkov; the beginning of friendship and cooperation of “Lev slim” and “Lev shout” |
1932 |
- N 1 of the All-Union Physical Journal “Physikalische Zeitschrift der Sowjetunion” was issued in English and German |
1933 |
- liquid helium was obtained by the Simon technique |
1934 |
- Meissner helium liquefier was started |
1935 |
- held additional appointment of head of the Chair for physics of solids at the Kharkov State University, organized the first in the country cryogenic practicum for students |
1935-1937 |
- performed a number of bright studies each of them was actually a discovery |
1937, August 6 |
-šgroundless arrest |
1937, November |
- executed by shooting |
1957, June 11 |
- rehabilitated posthumously |