Abram Fedorovich Ioffe — the First Director of the Ioffe Institute

Abram F.Ioffe (1880–1960) was an outstanding Russian/Soviet physicist, organizer of science, the first Director of the Physical-Technical Institute (PTI). At present, the Institute bears his name. Academician (1920), vice-president of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1926–1929; 1942–1945), Honored worker of science of the RSFSR (1933), honorary member of many foreign Academies of Science. Ioffe graduated from the Technological Institute of the Emperor Nicholas I in St. Petersburg (1902). He headed the Physical-Technical Department of the State Institute for Roentgenology and Radiology (1918–1922), and was the Director of PTI (1922–1950), the Agrophysical Institute (1931–1960), and the Institute of Semiconductors (1954–1960). The main works were in the field of general physics and solid state physics. He made a great contribution to the physics and technology of semiconductors. He received the Stalin prize (1942) and the Lenin prize (1961, posthumously), the Hero of Socialist Labor (1955). Awarded three Orders of Lenin (1940, 1945, and 1955), and medals, including the Medal «For the Defense of Leningrad» (1945).

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Physical-Technical Institute, A.F.Ioffe, the history of science

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