Pyotr Lebedev

Pyotr Lebedev

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name = Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev


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birth_place = Moscow, Russian Empire
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death_date = death date and age|1912|3|1|1866|2|24|df=y
death_place = Moscow, Russian Empire
field = Physicist
work_institution = Moscow State University
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doctoral_advisor = August Kundt
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known_for = Discovery of radiation pressure
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Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev ( _ru. Пётр Николаевич Лебедев) was a prominent Russian physicist.

He made his doctoral degree in Strasbourg under the supervision of August Kundt in 1887–1891. In 1891 he started working in Moscow State University in the group of Alexander Stoletov. There he made his famous experimental studies of electromagnetic waves. He was the first to measure the pressure of light on a solid body in 1899. The discovery was announced at the World Physics Congress in Paris in 1900, and became the first quantitative confirmation of Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism. In 1901 he became a professor of Moscow State University, however he quit the University in 1911, protesting against the politics of the Ministry of Education. In the same year he received an invitation to become a professor in Stockholm, which he rejected. He died the next year.

The Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow and the lunar crater Lebedev are named after him.

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NAME= Lebedev, Pyotr Nikolaevich
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SHORT DESCRIPTION= Russian Physicist
DATE OF BIRTH= 24 February, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH= Moscow, Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH= 1 March 1912
PLACE OF DEATH= Moscow, Russian Empire


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