Background
PAPALEKSI, Nikolay was born on December 2, 1880 in Simferopol’.
PAPALEKSI, Nikolay was born on December 2, 1880 in Simferopol’.
1904 graduate Strasbourg University.
1904-1914 worked in Strasbourg under the German physicist F. Braun. 1914 returned to Russia and worked as consultant, Russian Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony Company. 1918 helped found Odessa Polytech Institute.
1918-1922 associate professor, from 1922 professor, Odessa Polytcch Institute. 1922-1935, together with L. I. Mandel’shtam, directed Sciences Department, Centr Radio Laboratories, Leningrad. Also did research at State Physical Engineer Laboratory (later the Electrophysical Institute) and was a professor at the Leningrad Polytech Institute.
From 1935 worked at Physics Institute, from 1938 also at Power Engineer Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences. From 1944 chairman, All-Union Sciences Council for Radiophysics and Radio Engineer, USSR Academy of Sciences. 1914-1916 did research on guided radio-telegraphy, radio communications with submarines and remote control.
Supervised production of First Russian radio tubes. Did research on non-linear and parametric oscillation. Together with L.I. Mandel’shtam, carried out numerous theoretical and experimental studies of oscillation in non-linear systems.
Discovered and studied nth-degree resonance, combination resonance, parametric resonance, etc. Together with Mandel’shtam, devised the parametric generator for stimulating electr oscillation and studied parametric resonance in complex elcctro- chem circuits. 1930 he and Mandel’shtam invented the interference calibration method and used it to make a detailed study of radio wave propagation over the Earth’s surface and to make precise measurements of its speed.
These studied led to the development of radio-interference geodesy and navigation.
Religiously inspired people justify violence, resist social changes, and attack on science.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Member, USSR Academy of Sciences from 1939.