Background
Akhiezer, Alexander Illich was born on October 31, 1911 in Cherikov, Byelorussia. Son of Ilya Alexandrovich and Natalia Grigorievna Akhiezer.
non-fiction writer Theoretical physicist
Akhiezer, Alexander Illich was born on October 31, 1911 in Cherikov, Byelorussia. Son of Ilya Alexandrovich and Natalia Grigorievna Akhiezer.
He studied radio engineering at Kiev Polytechnic Institute in 1929-1934. With Isaak Pomeranchuk and under the supervision of Lev Landau, he studied light-light scattering and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in 1936.
He was the brother of the mathematician Naum Akhiezer. From 1934, he worked at the Ukrainian Institute of Physics and Technology in Kharkov. When Landau left Kharkov in 1938, Akhiezer became head of the department of Theoretical Physics.
A treatise on wave absorption in modulated quasiparticles gave him a habilitation degree in 1941, since when he was full professor at the same place until his death at the age of 89.
With Cyril Sinelnikov and Anton K. Valter he founded the faculty of physics and technology. With Pomeranchuk he studied neutron scattering and plasma physics at the Kurchatov nuclear physics institute in Moscow (1944-1952).
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Married Sophia Osajovna Abrunina. Children: Ilya Alexandrovich, Zoya, Tonya.