Grigory Landsberg

Grigory Samuilovich Landsberg
Born (1890-01-22)January 22, 1890
Vologda
Died February 2, 1957(1957-02-02) (aged 67)
Moscow
Nationality Russian
Fields Physics, optics, spectroscopy

Grigory Samuilovich Landsberg (Григорий Самуилович Ландсберг) (January 22, 1890, Vologda – February 2, 1957, Moscow) was a Soviet physicist. Grigory S. Landsberg is a co-discoverer of inelastic combinatorial scattering of light used now in Raman spectroscopy. His major scientific contributions were in the fields of optics and spectroscopy.

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Vitae

Grigory Landsberg graduated from the Moscow State University in 1913, and then taught there in 1913-1915, 1923–45, 1947-51 (Professor since 1923). Since 1934, he simultaneously worked also in the Physical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. In 1951-57 he was Professor of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

Landsberg conducted the pioneering studies on vibrational scattering of light in crystals since 1926. In 1928, G.S. Landsberg and L.I. Mandelstam discovered a phenomenon of combinatorial scattering of light (this phenomenon became known as Raman effect independently discovered by C. V. Raman and K. S. Krishnan in liquids). Landsberg discovered the fine structure in Rayleigh scattering. In 1931, he discovered a phenomenon of selective scattering of light.

He laid the foundation to spectroscopy of organic molecules and to the studies on inter- and intra-molecular interactions in the gaseous, liquid and solid phases in the USSR.

He founded a major school on atomic and molecular spectral analysis. He developed techniques for the spectral analysis of metals and alloys (USSR Government Prize, 1941), and for the analysis of complex organic mixtures, including motor fuels. He is the author of the famous course of "Optics", and editor of the most popular "Elementary Textbook on Physics" (Volumes 1-3, 7th Edition, 1971).

He was Founder and Chairman of the Commission on Spectroscopy of the USSR Academy of Sciences, transformed later (1968) into the Institute of Spectroscopy of the Academy of Sciences.

G.S. Landsberg was awarded two Orders of Lenin and several medals.

New phenomenon that they discovered spread in the world,[1][2][3] there works by Landsberg and Litas.

Discovery of the combinatorial scattering of light

Beginning from 1926, L.I. Mandelstam and G.S. Landsberg initiated experimental studies on vibrational scattering of light in crystals at the Moscow State University. Their intention was to prove the theoretical prediction made by Mandelstam in 1918 regarding the fine structure splitting in Rayleigh scattering due to light scattering on thermal acoustic waves. As a result of this research, Landsberg and Mandelstam discovered the effect of the inelastic combinatorial scattering of light on 21 February 1928 ("combinatorial" – from combination of frequencies of photons and molecular vibrations). They presented this fundamental discovery for the first time at a colloquium on 27 April 1928. They published brief reports about this discovery (experimental results with theoretical explanation) in Russian[4] and in German[5] and then published a comprehensive paper in Zeitschrift fur Physik.[6]

In the same year of 1928, two Indian scientists C.V. Raman and K.S. Krishnan were looking for "Compton component" of scattered light in liquids and vapors. They found the same combinatorial scattering of light. Raman stated that "The line spectrum of the new radiation was first seen on 28 February 1928."[7] Thus, combinatorial scattering of light was discovered by Mandelstam and Landsberg a week earlier than by Raman and Krishnan. However, the phenomenon became known as Raman effect because Raman published his results earlier than Landsherg and Mandelstam did. Nonetheless, in the Russian-language literature it is traditionally called "combinatorial scattering of light".

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References

  1. ↑ Selective Lichtstreuung in Quecksilberdampf, Physikalische Zeitschrift der Sowjetunion, 1935, Bd 8, H. 4, S. 378 (with Mandelstam, L.I.)
  2. ↑ Optics, 4 ed. , M., L., 1957 (General Physics Course, Volume 3)
  3. ↑ Selected Reports, M., L., 1958 (Introduction by C. L. Mandelstam and I.L. Fabelinskii)
  4. ↑ G.S. Landsherg, L.I. Mandelstam, "New phenomenon in scattering of light (preliminary report)", Journal of the Russian Physico-Chemical Society, Physics Section. 1928. V. 60. p. 335.
  5. ↑ G. Landsberg, L.Mandelstam, "Eine neue Erscheinung bei der Lichtzerstreuung in Krystallen", Naturwissenschaften. 1928. В. 16. S. 557.
  6. ↑ G.S. Landsherg, L.I. Mandelstam, "Uber die Lichtzerstreuung in Kristallen", Zeitschrift fur Physik. 1928. В. 50. S. 769.
  7. ↑ C.V. Raman, "A new radiation", Ind. J. Phys. 1928. V. 2. P. 387.
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