This book concludes the series Physics for Everyone by the world-renowned scientist, winner of the Nobel and Lenin prizes, academician Lev Landau and the distinguished physicist Alexander Kitaigorodosky, This book discusses in a simple easy-to-understand manner the phenomenon of electromagnetic waves, thermal radiation, and current treatment of spectroscopic analysis. Provides an introduction to the field of nuclear physics and explains the most common types of lasers...
Aleksandr Isaakovich Kitaigorodskii (Russian: Александр Исаакович Китайгородский) Soviet crystallographer, author of many science fiction works, popularizer of science, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics (1946), professor (1947). The son of the famous chemical engineer, specialist in silicates and glass, I. I. Kitaigorodsky.
In 1935 he graduated from the Physics Department of Moscow State University. Until June 1941, he headed the X-ray structural laboratory of VIEM. In 1936-1937 - Associate Professor of the Ministry of Economy. In 1938-1940 he taught a course in theoretical physics at the Moscow City Pedagogical Institute.
In 1942-1944 Kitaigorodsky was the head of a department at a branch of the Moscow Oil Institute (MNI); read a course in general physics at the Bashkir Medical Institute. In the same years he worked in Ufa as the head of the physical department of a large defense enterprise. Since 1944 - head of X-ray structural research at the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
In 1954-1985 he was the head of the structural analysis laboratory at the Institute of Organoelement Compounds of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1958-1985 he was a professor at the Kolomna Pedagogical Institute. Laureate of the D.I. Mendeleev (1949) and the Prize to them. E.S.Fedorova (1967).
He became the creator of a new direction in science - structural crystallography, as well as the author of the method of atom-atomic potentials and the principle of close packing in molecular crystals. He wrote fundamental books in the field of X-ray structural analysis (X-ray structural analysis, X-ray structural analysis of fine-crystalline and amorphous bodies, Theory of X-ray structural analysis, etc.), translated into many other languages.
He was a talented popularizer of science, his speeches to a wide audience of listeners often took place in crowded halls and ended in heated discussions. The popular science books written by him quickly disappeared from the book shelves (Physics is my profession, Reniks, Physics for all, etc.).
Kitaygorodsky's students include two academicians, more than 10 doctors and 40 candidates of sciences. One of the students is Yu. T. Struchkov.