Yevgeniy Zavoyskiy
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Born | September 28 [O.S. September 15] 1907 Mogilyov-Podolsk |
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Died | October 9, 1976 Moscow |
Field | Nuclear physics |
Institution | Kazan University, Arzamas-16 |
Alma mater | Kazan University |
Known for | Discovery of electron spin resonance (1944), construction of the luminescent camera for studying nuclear processes |
Notable prizes | Stalin Prize (1949), Lenin Prize (1957), International Electron Spin Resonance Society Prize (1977, posthumously) |
Yevgeniy Konstantinovich Zavoyskiy (Russian: Евгений Константинович Завойский) was a Soviet physicist. He discovered electron spin resonance. Independent of L. Faynberg, he also discovered the abnormally big resistance of plasma for high current densities in 1961.