Aleksandr Sadovskii

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Sadovskii, Aleksandr Ivanovich

 

Born Nov. 24 (Dec. 6), 1859, in Vitebsk; died Dec. 26, 1923, in Prague. Russian physicist.

Sadovskii graduated from the University of St. Petersburg in 1881. He held teaching positions at the St. Petersburg Institute of Civil Engineering, the Nikolai Naval Academy, and the St. Petersburg Institute of Mines. In 1894 he became a professor at Iur’ev University (now the University of Tartu). In 1898, Sadovskii became the first person to demonstrate theoretically that an electromagnetic field possesses angular momentum. Known as the Sadovskii effect, this phenomenon was detected experimentally in 1935 by R. Beth of the USA.

WORKS

“Ponderomotornye deistviia elektromagnitnykh i svetovykh voln na kristally.” Uch. zap. Iur’evskogo un-ta, 1898, no. 1.

REFERENCE

Istoriia estestvoznaniia v Rossii, vol. 2. Moscow, 1960.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.