Yevgeniy Zavoyskiy

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Yevgeniy Zavoyskiy
Евгений Завойский
Born September 28 [O.S. September 15] 1907
Mogilyov-Podolsk
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.

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