Lev Shubnikov
Lev Shubnikov | |
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Лев Васи́льевич Шу́бников | |
| Born | Lev Vasilyevich Shubnikov September 29, 1901 |
| Died | November 10, 1937 (aged 36) |
| Alma mater | Leningrad Polytechnical Institute |
| Known for | Shubnikov–de Haas effect Type II superconductors Antiferromagnetism |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Experimental physics Cryogenics |
| Institutions | Ukrainian Physics and Technology Institute |
| Doctoral advisor | Ivan Obreimov |
Lev Vasilyevich Shubnikov (Russian: Лев Васи́льевич Шу́бников, Ukrainian: Лев Васильович Шубников; 29 September 1901 – 10 November 1937) was a Soviet experimental physicist who worked in the Netherlands and USSR. He has been referred as 'the founding father of Soviet low-temperature physics'. He is known for the discovery of the Shubnikov–de Haas effect and type-II superconductivity. He also one of the first to discover antiferromagnetism.
In 1937, he was executed during the Ukrainian Physics and Technology Institute Affair on the basis of falsified charges as part of the Great Purge.