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Utilization of the method of long waves in a compressible 

 liquid. Prikl. Mat. i Mekh., 1944, X #5. 



Distribution of temperature in the earth's atmosphere. Dok- 

 lady Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., 1943, 39, #1. 



Conditions for a dynamic possibility of movement of a com- 

 pressible liquid at an assigned inflow of energy. Geophysical 

 Collection, 1932, 5, #3. 



Application to meteorology of mechanics of baroclinic 

 liquid. Izvest. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Georg. i Geofiz. Ser., 

 1940, #5. 



On the adjustment of air movement to the geostrophic. 

 Doklady Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., 1955, 104, #1. 

 Introduction to Hydrodynamic Methods of Short-Range 

 Weather Forecasting. Moscow: 1957. 

 Office: Central Institute of Weather Forecasting 



Moscow, USSR 



KIKOIN, ISAAK KONSTANTINQVICH (Physicist) 



I. A. Kikoin was born March 28, 1908. In 1932 he graduated 

 from Leningrad Polytechnic Institute. He then taught and did 

 research in Leningrad and Sverdlovsk until 1944 when he be- 

 came professor at the Moscow Engineering and Physics Insti- 

 tute. In 1943 he was elected Corresponding Member of the 

 U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences and in 1953 Academician. He 

 was awarded in 1942 a Stalin Prize. 



Most of Kikoin' s work has been on electric and magnetic 

 properties of metals and semiconductors, particularly liquid 

 metals. He measured the gyromagnetic coefficient for super- 

 conductors and proved that the Hall effect in ferromagnetic 

 substances is affected by magnetizing the material. He dis- 

 covered a photomagnetic effect; the production of an electro- 

 motive force when a conductor, placed in a magnetic field, is 

 exposed to light. He showed experimentally that the absolute 

 charge of a positron is equal to that of an electron. Kikoin also 

 developed methods for measuring electric quantities in high 

 current direct current systems and then found application in 

 electrolysis (Stalin Prize, 1942). 

 Bibliography: 



and Ya. G. Dorfman. Physics of Metals, Moscow-Leningrad: 



1934. 

 Biography: 



Kikoin, L K. Vestnik Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., 1954, #1. 

 Office: Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute 



Moscow, USSR 



