Recent Papers

LIGHTNING AND ITS PHYSICAL NATURE

The main purpose of this article is to present, more or less systematically, issues concerning thunderstorm formation, thunderstorm discharges, and the mechanism and nature of lightning, on the basis of the available original works in this field. This review is divided into four separate parts in th…

A. Kitaigorodsky, Moscow

Electron Optics and Its Applications

Lamps Using Fluorescence[^1]

Minute Metal Particles Inside a Crystal Lattice

Annotated Index of Literature on the Physical Sciences Published from October 16 to December 15, 1938

A. G. Stoletov’s Work on the Photoelectric Effect

An Attempt to Establish the Equivalence of Radiation and Convective Heat on the Basis of the Thermal Sensations They Produce¹

New Applications of Photocells in Production

Annotated Bibliographic Index of the Literature on the Physical Sciences Published from December 16, 1938 to January 20, 1939

Electrographic method for recording fast electrical processes

Optical Phenomena Associated with the Orientation of Elongated Particles in a Fluid Flow

Among the numerous large and small reviews on superconductivity, D. Schoenberg’s little book stands out favorably for its originality. This is not a collection of abstracts, but a

Conference on the Standardization of Research Methods in Industrial Hygiene Chemistry

TOWARD A THEORY OF COSMIC RADIATION¹

Improved Continuous-Action Wilson Chamber¹

FORWARD, TO COMMUNISM!

Pravda, No. 80 (7765), March 22, 1939.

Some Physical Problems of Electric Power Engineering[^1]

On the Structure of Ice

ANNOTATED INDEX OF NON-PERIODICAL LITERATURE ON THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Elections to the Academy of Sciences of the USSR

Bibliographic Index of Foreign Literature

The Role of the Physicist in the Glass Industry

D. Gogoberidze, Leningrad

Book Review: F. N. Kharadzha. X-ray Engineering

ALEXANDER GRIGORIEVICH STOLETOV—FOUNDER OF RUSSIAN PHYSICS¹

Transcript of a report delivered at the solemn joint meeting of the Academic Council of the Faculty of Physics and the general colloquium of the Institute of Physics of Moscow State University on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Prof. Alexander Grigorievich Stoletov. The meeting took pl…

In Memory of E. V. Bogoslovsky

The title of the book does not quite correspond to its contents. I. G. Dreizen’s course is, strictly speaking, more a textbook for a technical college on technical acoustics than o

Book review: I. G. Dreizen. Course in Electroacoustics.

SPEED OF PROPAGATION OF RADIO WAVES IN AIR[^1]

Nature of Intercrystalline Interlayers[^1]

ANNOTATED INDEX OF LITERATURE

ON THE THEORY OF COSMIC RADIATION¹

Some Problems in Meteor Physics

ON THE PROBLEM OF CRYSTAL NUCLEATION

Conference of the People’s Commissars of Health of the Union Republics

Ultrasound and Its Applications

III All-Union Conference on the Atomic Nucleus

From October 1 to 6, 1938, the Third All-Union Conference on the Atomic Nucleus, convened by the Department of Mathematical and Natural Sciences of the USSR Academy of Sciences, was held in Leningrad.

THE NATURE OF INTERCRYSTALLINE INTERLAYERS

A METHOD OF GEOMETRIC REPRESENTATION OF THE THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF SUBSTANCES BY MEANS OF SURFACES¹

The Nature of Terrestrial Magnetism[^1]

New Textbooks on Quantum Mechanics

Noted Typographical Errors*

TURBULENCE[^1]

Bibliographic Index of Foreign Literature

Hydrogen Isotope with Mass 3

In 1934, experimental data were published on the basis of which a conclusion was drawn about the existence of a hydrogen isotope with mass 3 in natural sources. Bleakney’s methodology is of independent interest and, if used rationally, may yield very valuable results.

ULTRAFINE METAL PARTICLES INSIDE A CRYSTAL LATTICE

Chronicle of the Soviet Union

On the Structure and Properties of Clays[^1]

A New Type of Mass Spectrograph

On the Theory of Crystal Growth and the Formation of Crystalline Nuclei¹

Annotated Index of Literature on the Physical Sciences Published from January 21 to March 10, 1939