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Semyon Davidovich Kirlian (/ ˈ k ɜːr l i ə n /; Russian: Семён Давидович Кирлиан; Armenian: Սիմոն Կիրլյան; 20 February 1898 – 4 April 1978) was a Soviet inventor and researcher of Armenian descent, who along with his wife Valentina Khrisanfovna Kirlian (Russian: Валентина Хрисанфовна Кирлиан; 1904—1971), a teacher and ...
Kirlian photograph of two coins. Kirlian photography is a collection of photographic techniques used to capture the phenomenon of electrical coronal discharges.It is named after Soviet scientist Semyon Kirlian, who, in 1939, accidentally discovered that if an object on a photographic plate is connected to a high-voltage source, an image is produced on the photographic plate. [1]
German scientist Johann Philipp Reis invented the microphone. 1862: Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell published the four equations bearing his name. 1866: The Transatlantic telegraph cable: 1873: Belgian engineer Zenobe Gramme who developed the DC generator accidentally discovered that a DC generator also works as a DC motor during an ...
Edison effect (Thermionic emission) – Thomas Edison; Edison screw – Thomas Edison; Ehrlich's reagent – Paul Ehrlich; Éolienne Bollée – Ernest Sylvain Bollée; Ericsson engine – John Ericsson; Erlenmeyer flask – Emil Erlenmeyer; Euclidean geometry – Euclid; Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife – William Ewart Fairbairn and Eric ...
Hans Jenny (16 August 1904 in Basel – 23 June 1972 in Dornach) [1] was a Swiss physician and natural scientist who coined the term "cymatics" to describe acoustic effects of sound wave phenomena. Life and career
Jarosław Duda: computer scientist, a graduate of Jagiellonian University and inventor of Asymmetric numeral systems (ANS), a family of entropy encoding methods widely used in data compression. [17] Jan Dzierżon: apiarist who discovered the phenomenon of parthenogenesis in bees [18] and designed the first successful movable-frame beehive (1838 ...
Roger Payne, the scientist who spurred a worldwide environmental conservation movement with his discovery that whales could sing, has died. Payne made the discovery in 1967 during a research trip ...
Auger effect (a.k.a. Auger-Meitner effect), electron – Pierre Victor Auger and Lise Meitner; Autler–Townes effect – Stanley H. Autler and Charles H. Townes; Auwers synthesis – Karl von Auwers; Avogadro's law, Avogadro constant, Avogadro number – Count Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro di Quaregna e Cerreto