Vsevolod Frederiks
Vsevolod Konstantinovich Frederiks (or Fréedericksz;
liquid crystals. The Frederiks transition
is named after him.
After high school, Frederiks attended
Göttingen University. He was there for more than eight years, and with the outbreak of World War I he became a civil prisoner.[clarification needed] During that period, he became personal assistant to David Hilbert
.
In the summer of 1918, Frederiks returned to Russia, and worked at the Institute of Physics and Biophysics in Moscow. In 1919, he became a lecturer at the University of Petrograd. He was arrested by the NKVD in 1937. Although released before World War II, he died before reaching home.[1]
Works
- Fréedericksz, V.; Repiewa, A. (1927). "Theoretisches und Experimentelles zur Frage nach der Natur der anisotropen Flüssigkeiten". Zeitschrift für Physik. 42 (7): 532–546. .
- Fréedericksz, V.; Zolina, V. (1933). "Forces causing the orientation of an anisotropic liquid". Trans. Faraday Soc. 29 (140): 919–930. .
References
- ^ Elizabeth Wilson. Shostakovich: A Life Remembered London: Faber, 2006: p. 145
Bibliography
- David Dunmur & Tim Sluckin (2011) Soap, Science, and Flat-screen TVs: a history of liquid crystals, pp 103–7, ISBN 978-0-19-954940-5.
- A.S. Sonin & V.Ya. Frenkel (1995) Vsevolod Konstantinovich Freédericksz, Moscow: Nauka Publishing House.
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