Background
Maria Afanasyevna Levitskaya was born on April 1, 1883 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Maria Afanasyevna Levitskaya was born on April 1, 1883 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Maria Afanasyevna Levitskaya graduated from higher women's courses in St. Petersburg (1906) and also studied at the universities of Berlin and Göttingen.
In 1908-1917, a laboratory assistant at women's polytechnic courses. In 1917-1920, senior assistant at the Department of Physics of Tomsk State University. In 1920-1924, Professor of the Department of Physics of Tashkent State University. In 1924-1934, a researcher of the 1st category of the Leningrad Physical-Technical X-ray Institute, at the same time a professor at the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (now Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University). In 1934-1935, a researcher at the Leningrad State Optical Institute (now Vavilov State Optical Institute). Since 1935, Professor of Voronezh State University, Head of the Department of Theoretical Physics, since 1936 - the Department of Electromagnetic Oscillations, since 1961 - Department of Solid State Physics (RUNS).