Alexander Kompaneyets
Alexander Kompaneyets | |
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| Born | Alexander Solomonovich Kompaneyets 4 January 1914 |
| Died | 19 August 1974 (aged 60) |
| Alma mater | Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology |
| Known for | Kompaneyets equation |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Institute of Chemical Physics |
| Thesis | (1936) |
| Doctoral advisor | Lev Landau |
Alexander Solomonovich Kompaneyets (Russian: Александр Соломонович Компанеец) was born on January 4, 1914, in Ekaterinoslav, Russian Empire (now Dnipro, Ukraine) and died on August 19, 1974, in Palanga, Lithuania. He was a prominent physicist, author of a number of textbooks, and collaborator on the Soviet atomic bomb project who lived mainly in Moscow.