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Born to a middle-class Jewish family in small town of Romny, Russian Empire (now in Sumy region, Ukraine), after graduation in ( 1902) from St. Petersburg Technological Institute he worked for two years as an assistant to famous Wilhelm Roentgen in his MunichMunich ( German: Munchen ) is the state capital of the German Bundesland of Bavaria. Behind Berlin and Hamburg, Munich is Germany's third largest city with a population of about 1. 261 million ( as of 2003). It is located on the river Isar. History The se laboratory. In 1905Events January-April January 22 Massacre of Russian demonstrators at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, one of the triggers of the abortive Russian Revolution of 1905. January 26 The Cullinan Diamond is found near Pretoria, South Africa at the Premier Ioffe obtained PhD from Munich University.
After 1906Events January 8 Landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 20 January 31 Earthquake in Ecuador (8. 6 in Richter scale) February 11 Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos''. February 15 Representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in t Ioffe worked in the St. Petersburg (from 1924 Leningrad) Politechnical Institute, where later became a professor. In 1918Events January January 8 President Woodrow Wilson announces his " Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I. February February 3 The Twin Peaks Tunnel begins service in San Francisco as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world (11,920 feet long). he became a head of Physics and Technology division in State Institute of Roentgenology and Radiology . This division later became the Ioffe Physico-Technical InstituteIoffe Physico-Technical Institute is one of Russia's largest research centers specialized in physics and technology. The institute was established in 1918 in Petrograd and run for several decades by Abram Fedorovich Ioffe. The Institute is a member of the.
In 19111911 is a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). Events January-June January 1 Northern Territory is separated from South Australia January 3 In London, a shootout between Russian anarchists and the Scots Guard January 10 Major Jimmi Ioffe converted to Lutheranism. In 1913 he attained the title of Magister of Philosophy, in 1915 - Doctor of Physics.
In the course of his brilliant career he researched electromagnetism, radiology, features of crystals, physics of high impact, thermoelectricity, photoelectricity , and was a leading force in building new research laboratories for radioactivity, superconductivity, and nuclear physics. Many of these laboratories later became independent institutes.
Ioffe refused a job offer of directing the Soviet project to build the nuclear bomb. He saw great promise in the young Igor Kurchatov, and in 1942 placed him in charge of the first nuclear laboratory.
During the Stalin's campaign against the so-called rootless cosmopolitans, in 1950 Ioffe was fired from his position of the Director of Institute and from the Board of Directors.
Ioffe's pedagogical efforts resulted in the Soviet school of physics, his students include Aleksandr Aleksandrov, Yakov Dorfman , Pyotr Kapitsa, Isaak Kikoin , Igor Kurchatov, Yakov Frenkel , Nikolay Semyonov, Lev Artsimovich and others.