Yuri Yappa
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Yuri Andreevich Yappa (
Biography
Yuri Yappa was born in
).In 1941, because of the German invasion in the Soviet Union and the Siege of Leningrad he had to interrupt his regular education and to start working. During the whole Siege of Leningrad he worked at the hospital where his father also worked. In 1944, he was awarded of medal "For the Defence of Leningrad". In parallel with the work in the hospital, he continued his self-education, so that in 1944 he passed exams for the entire course of the school and started to study at the Physical Faculty of the Leningrad University. During the winter of 1944-1945 he with a few other students alternated their studies with a work as stokers in the university's boiler-house.[1] Yuri Yappa also started to work at the laboratory of molecular physics, but later, following an advice of its head Viktor Tsvetkov, joined a theoretical physics group.
In 1949 he graduated from the Leningrad University, then continued postgraduate studies there at the Chair of Theoretical Physics headed by Vladimir Fock. Since then Yuri Yappa was the nearest collaborator of Vladimir Fock till the death of the latter in 1974.
Academic career
In 1953 Yuri Yappa earned his PhD (Russian: кандидат наук) degree with a thesis on the relativistic theory of elementary particles.[2]
In 1954–1956, he led a group of theoreticians at the Institute of Nuclear Problems of the
In 1956 the Institute of Nuclear Problems was united with the Electrophysical Laboratory of
Yuri Yappa was a senior research scientist (
Scientific work and teaching
Yuri Yappa led a number of theoretical courses in the Leningrad/St.-Petersburg University, including his well-known courses of
Honors and awards
- Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad" (1944)
- Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad" (1957)
- Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1985)
Works published in English
- Novozhilov, Yu. V.; Yappa, Yu. A. (1986) [1981]. Electrodynamics. Translated from Russian by V. I. Kisin (Revised ed.). Moscow: Mir Publishers.
- Levitskii, B. A.; Yappa, Yu. A. (1981). "Covariant generalization of Noether's theorems for fields with spin". Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. 48 (2): 715–721. S2CID 120581499.
- Levitskii, B. A.; Yappa, Yu. A. (1982). "Structure of the energy-momentum tensor and the spin tensor in a covariant theory of a spinor field". Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. 53 (2): 1107–1113. S2CID 120962084.
- Yappa, Yu. A. (1987). "On the interpretation of anticommuting variables in the theory of superspace". Letters in Mathematical Physics. 14 (2): 157–159. S2CID 120533337.
- Yappa Yu. A. (1988) "Notes on the N-dimensional space". Preprint DIJ 211/88. Dijon: University of Burgundy.
References
- ^ Шухтина М.А. (2004-05-21). Как МейБоДо сохранили непрерывность образования на физическом факультете [How "MeiBoDo" preserved the contunuity of education at the physical faculty]. Санкт-Петербургский университет (in Russian) (№ 14–15 (1671–72)).
{{cite journal}}:|issue=has extra text (help) - ^ Яппа Ю. А. (1953). Шредингеровские формы релятивистски-инвариантных уравнений для элементарных частиц и некоторые вопросы их физической интерпретации [Schrödinger Forms of Relativistically Invariant Equations for Elementary Particles and Some Problems of Their Physical Interpretation (PhD Thesis)] (in Russian). Ленинград: Лениградский государственный университет.
- ^ Ю. А. Яппа, ed. (1955). Систематика элементарных частиц [Systematics of Elementary Particles]. Проблемы современной физики (in Russian). Vol. 10. Москва: Издательство иностранной литературы.
- ^ Ю. А. Яппа, ed. (1956). Метод Тамма–Данкова [Tamm–Dancoff method]. Проблемы современной физики (in Russian). Vol. 11. Москва: Издательство иностранной литературы.
- ^ Site of the Chair of High Energy and Elementary Particle Physics of the Saint-Petersburg State University
- ^ Новожилов Ю. В.; Яппа Ю. А. (1978). Электродинамика [Electrodynamics] (in Russian). Москва: Наука.
- ^ Novozhilov Yu. V.; Yappa Yu. A. (1986) [1981]. Electrodynamics. Translated from Russian by V. I. Kisin (Revised ed.). Moscow: Mir Publishers.
- ISBN 978-5-288-01951-7.
Further reading
- Потехина Н. Д.; Потехин А. Ю. (2013). Яппа — врачи и учёные [Yappa — Physicians and Scientists]. Толстовский дом (in Russian). Vol. 3: Гений места. М. Н. Колотило (авт. концепции и сост.), Н. И. Крайнева (науч. ред.). Санкт-Петербург: Искусство России. С. 385–396. ISBN 978-5-98361-186-3.
