Recent Papers

DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEORY OF ANTIPARTICLES, CHARGES OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES, AND PROPERTIES OF HEAVY NEUTRAL MESONS

On Pierre Curie’s Works in the Field of Symmetry

CHARACTERISTICS OF SCINTILLATORS\*)

Several reviews of the development, theory, and application of scintillation counters have already appeared in print. For the convenience of readers, some of the most recent and substantive reviews are listed in the bibliography. The present paper attempts, as far as possible without repetition, to …

TABLE OF PROPERTIES OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES\*)

POLARIZED LUMINESCENCE OF CUBIC CRYSTALS\*)

Report presented at the Fourth Conference on Luminescence (Minsk, June 1955).

THE SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN\*)

A lecture delivered on January 17, 1956, at a ceremonial meeting of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, the Soviet Peace Committee, Lomonosov Moscow State University, the Union of Soviet Writers, and the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, dedicated to the 250th anniver…

CREATIVE AUTOBIOGRAPHY\*

ON THE MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURE OF RENORMALIZABLE LEE FIELD THEORY\*

The purpose of the present article is, first, to clarify the mathematical reasons for the emergence of result (1); second, it will be shown that the violation of the basic principles expressed by relation (1) leads to a number of consequences, since the $S$-matrix of the theory proves to be nonunita…

THE EARLY PERIOD IN THE HISTORY OF THE EXTERNAL PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF STOLETOV’S WORKS

CYCLOTRON RESONANCE

Torichan Pavlovich Kravets

ON THE SCATTERING OF FAST PARTICLES BY NUCLEI

INTERSTELLAR POLARIZATION OF LIGHT

Review of Papers Presented at the Meetings of the Section “Photoelectric Phenomena in Semiconductors”

The study of photoelectric and optical properties occupies an important place in the overall body of research on the properties of semiconductors. This determined the interest in the work of the photoelectric section that was evident during the days of the conference.

INTERMOLECULAR ENERGY TRANSFER IN THE PHENOMENON OF SENSITIZED LUMINESCENCE OF ORGANIC SYSTEMS. II\*)

Over the past thirty-nine years, Soviet scholars have carried out extensive work in the study of the vast scholarly legacy left by M. V. Lomonosov, and have published about one hun

NEW BOOKS ON PHYSICS

Scientific Conference on Electroacoustics

From July 1 to 5, 1955, a scientific conference on electroacoustics was held in Kiev, convened by the Acoustics Commission of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, the Acoustics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, and the Kiev Order of Lenin Polytechnic Institute.

Remarks on Albert Einstein’s Creative Autobiography

Observation of the Einstein Effect During Solar Eclipses\*)

A report delivered at the meeting of the Einstein Session of the Departments of Physical and Mathematical Sciences on November 30, 1955.

DURATION OF THE FLASH IN THE VAVILOV–CHERENKOV EFFECT*)

Report at the colloquium of the Physical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, dedicated to the memory of S. I. Vavilov, delivered on January 25, 1954. The text of the report has been revised and supplemented.

THE STATE OF OUR KNOWLEDGE OF SEMICONDUCTORS AND FUTURE TASKS

Semiconductors Sensitive in the Infrared Region of the Spectrum\*

A. Einstein and Modern Physics *)

Opening address at the meeting of the Division of Physical and Mathematical Sciences on November 30, 1955, dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of the theory of relativity.

DEVELOPMENT OF A FLUOROMETRIC METHOD FOR STUDYING THE DURATION OF THE EXCITED STATE OF MOLECULES

DISPLACEMENT OF ATOMS IN SOLIDS UNDER THE ACTION OF RADIATION

International Conference on Nuclear Reactions

From July 2 to 7, 1956, the International Conference on Nuclear Reactions, organized by the Netherlands Physical Society, was held in Amsterdam (Netherlands).

On a Molecular Generator Without the Use of a Molecular Beam

HYDRODYNAMICS OF HELIUM II\*

THE CURRENT STATE OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLE THEORY\*

A report delivered on September 23, 1955, at the Congress of Physicists in Wiesbaden.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Lermontov

FOUNDATIONS OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS *)

A review of the current state of the justification of quantum statistical mechanics has not yet existed, and the aim of the present work is to provide such a review. In a recently published monograph, the author has already touched upon some of the issues discussed below. It must be taken into accou…

Sixth International Colloquium on Spectroscopy in Amsterdam

THE LIFE AND WORK OF PIERRE CURIE

On April 19, 1906, a fatal accident cut short the life of the great French scientist Pierre Curie—a physicist and crystallographer, a subtle experimentalist, an ingenious inventor of precision instruments, a profound thinker, and, with all this, a man of extraordinary moral purity and charm.

FOUNDATIONS OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS, Part II

EQUIPMENT AND METHODS FOR STUDYING RAMAN SCATTERING SPECTRA IN GASES

From an experimental standpoint, Raman scattering spectroscopy in gases can now successfully compete in its capabilities with infrared absorption spectra. As for obtaining pure rotational Raman scattering spectra, the technique is much simpler than in the study of the far-infrared region. Thus, Rama…

SEMICONDUCTORS AS CATALYSTS OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS

This article was written at the suggestion of the editorial board of Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk in connection with the All-Union Conference on Semiconductors held in Leningrad in November 1955. A special section on “Semiconductor Catalysis” operated at this conference.

OBSERVATION OF ANTIPROTONS

ON THE POSSIBILITY OF CREATING THERMONUCLEAR REACTIONS IN A GAS DISCHARGE\*)

A lecture delivered on April 25, 1956, at the English Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Harwell.

THEORY OF SEMICONDUCTORS AT THE EIGHTH ALL-UNION CONFERENCE ON SEMICONDUCTORS

The present article should not be regarded as a review of the current state of semiconductor theory. It is a review of specific works reported at the meetings of the theoretical section of the VIII All-Union Conference on Semiconductors. In this connection, two reports on general problems of semicon…

THE LAW OF CONSERVATION OF MOTION AND THE MEASURE OF MOTION IN PHYSICS

SPATIAL CHARGE DISTRIBUTION AND “ELECTRIC RADIUS” OF HEAVY NUCLEI

BETA PROCESSES AND ASTROPHYSICS

Until recently, it seemed that the rate of energy release was determined by gamma-capture processes, while beta processes were secondary. Recently, the development of theory has led to the conclusion that the beta-process constant may enter as a factor in the total rate of energy release and that th…

Conference on the Electrical and Physicochemical Properties of Solid Dielectrics

In September 1955, a conference on the electrical and physicochemical properties of solid dielectrics was held in Tomsk. The conference was devoted to issues of dielectric breakdown, dielectric losses and polarization, and the electrical conductivity of solid crystalline dielectrics.

Tbilisi Conference on Theoretical Physics

From October 26 to 29, 1955, a conference on theoretical physics was held in Tbilisi. This conference, organized by the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR, was attended, along with theorists from the Institute of Physics of I. B. Stalin Tbilisi State University, by t…

VAVILOV’S LAW

A central place in S. I. Vavilov’s works on luminescence is occupied by studies of luminescence yield. The present article is limited to a brief account of S. I. Vavilov’s works devoted mainly to the dependence of the yield on the wavelength of the exciting light and to the current state of the ques…

Current State of the Theory of Optical Properties of Semitransparent Metal Coatings

The need for a special review of the basic concepts of the theory of the optical properties of thin metal films lies, in our view, not only in the fact that the study of these properties is now at the center of attention of a wide range of researchers, but chiefly in the fact that most researchers, …

ISOTOPE SPECTRAL ANALYSIS

Most chemical elements are mixtures of several isotopes that differ in atomic weights. A number of methods are used to study isotopic composition, based either directly on the difference in the atomic weights of isotopes (the mass spectrometric method) or on the difference in their physical properti…

OZONE IN THE STRATOSPHERE\*

The early article is based on lectures on the ozonosphere delivered at the Faculty of Physics of Tbilisi University in December 1955.

MY MEMORIES OF EINSTEIN\*