Yuriy Rumer

Russian physicist (1901-1985) · Russia · On the map · Scientists · Died at 83

Yuri Borisovich Rumer was a Soviet theoretical physicist, who mostly worked in the fields of quantum mechanics and quantum optics. Known in the West as Georg Rumer, he was a close friend of Lev Landau, and was arrested with him during the Great Purge in 1938.

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