SCIENTISTS-POLyTEcHNICs, GLORIFIED OUR COUNTRY. CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE AS USSR YAKOV FRENKEL (THE 120TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH

Jacob Frenkel (1894−1952) — a prominent Soviet physicist, member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1929), the closest ally of Academician AF Joffe, winner of the Stalin Prize (1947). He graduated from the Imperial University of Petrograd in 1916. In 1918−1920, he served as a privat-docent at the Tauride univrsitete. From 1921 until his death in January 1952 while working at the Physical — Technical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (senior physicist and head of operations, head of the Department of Theoretical Physics), and taught at the Faculty of Physics and Mechanics of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute M.I. Kalinin (since 1926 Professor of Theoretical Physics, and since 1931 head of the department of theoretical physics).