Yevgeny Zavoisky
Yevgeny Zavoisky | |
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| Born | Yevgeny Konstantinovich Zavoisky September 28 [O.S. September 15] 1907 |
| Died | 9 October 1976 (aged 69) |
| Alma mater | Kazan University |
| Known for | Discovery of electron paramagnetic resonance (1944) |
| Awards | Stalin Prize (1949), Lenin Prize (1957), International EPR Society Prize (1977, posthumously) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Spectroscopy |
| Institutions | Kazan University, Arzamas-16, Institute of Atomic Energy |
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Yevgeny Konstantinovich Zavoisky (Russian: Евгений Константинович Завойский; September 28, 1907 – October 9, 1976) was a Soviet physicist known for discovery of electron paramagnetic resonance in 1944. He likely observed nuclear magnetic resonance in 1941, well before Felix Bloch and Edward Mills Purcell, but dismissed the results as not reproducible. Zavoisky is also credited with design of luminescence camera for detection of nuclear processes in 1952 and discovery of magneto-acoustic resonance in plasma in 1958.