Abram Fedorovich Ioffe (Russian: Абра́м Фёдорович Ио́ффе, 29 October [O.S. 17 October] 1880 – 14 October 1960) was a prominent Russian/Soviet physicist. He received the Stalin Prize (1942), the Lenin Prize (1960) (posthumously), and the Hero of Socialist Labor (1955). Ioffe was an expert in various areas of solid state physics and electromagnetism. He established research laboratories for radioactivity, superconductivity, and nuclear physics, many of which became independent institutes.
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29 October 1880 Romny, Ukraine
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Died |
14 October 1960 (aged 79) Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Zodiac | Scorpio |
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