Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist and academic (born 1880)

Abram Ioffe

Soviet physicist (1880–1960)

Abram Fedorovich Ioffe was a prominent 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…