Yevgeny Zavoisky
Appearance
Yevgeny Zavoisky Евгений Завойский | |
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Born | September 28 [O.S. September 15] 1907 |
Died | |
Alma mater | Kazan University |
Known for | Discovery of electron spin resonance (1944), construction of the luminescent camera for studying nuclear processes |
Awards | Stalin Prize (1949), Lenin Prize (1957), International Electron Spin Resonance Society Prize (1977, posthumously) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Nuclear physics |
Institutions | Kazan University, Arzamas-16 |
Yevgeny Konstantinovich Zavoisky (Russian: Евгений Константинович Завойский) was a Soviet physicist. He discovered electron spin resonance in 1944. Independent of L. Faynberg, he also discovered the abnormally big resistance of plasma for high current densities in 1961.