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| The son of a Soviet physicist repressed by Stalin died in Moscow | |
| 2023-10-15 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Alexander Witt , the son of a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, repressed in 1937, died in Moscow. A source told IA Regnum about this On October 10, Alexander Alexandrovich Witt died in an apartment on Butyrskaya Street. Three weeks ago he celebrated his 86th birthday. “The death of an 86-year-old man was recorded in an apartment on Butyrskaya Street. The preliminary cause was cardiovascular failure,” the agency’s source said. Alexander Alexandrovich Witt was born on September 18, 1937. He worked for many years in various publishing houses. His father Alexander Adolfovich Witt was a famous Soviet physicist and mathematician. He was born on September 12, 1902. His parents were Germans living in the USSR. This fact became decisive in the fate of the talented scientist. He studied at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Moscow State University and at the Higher Aerophotogrammetric School of the Red Air Fleet at the same time and served in the Red Army. After graduating from the university, he entered graduate school and worked under the supervision of one of the founders of the national scientific school of radiophysics, academician Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam. In 1934, for his great scientific achievements, Witt was elected a full member of the Research Institute of Physics at Moscow State University, and in 1935 he became a Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and a professor at the Department of Oscillation Physics at Moscow State University. In the same year, Alexander Adolfovich married Olga Neburchilova. But Witt's career, like family happiness, did not last long. In July 1937, he fell under a wave of Stalinist repressions, was sentenced to five years of exile and sent to a camp in Kolyma. At the same time as the scientist, his brother, sister, cousin and uncle were arrested. At that time, the physicist’s wife was seven months pregnant. Alexander Adolfovich did not have time to see his son; he died in 1938 in Kolyma at the age of 35. In 1941, Witt's parents, as ethnic Germans, were deported to Kazakhstan, where they soon died, unable to withstand the hardships of exile. Alexander Adolfovich’s scientific work “The Theory of Oscillations,” created in collaboration with famous physicists Alexander Andronov and Semyon Khaikin, was published in 1937 without listing Witt among the authors. In 1957, Alexander Adolfovich Witt was officially rehabilitated for lack of proof of the charges against him.
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| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 Them Communists knew quite a bit About physics, and making folks fit. A memo from Zentrum Anent her momentum: "Repent of the West, Fräulein Witt!" |
| Posted by: Betty Grusoger5057 2023-10-15 19:21 |
| #1 like so many others killed by the Soviets before and after Shoemakers and grocers are of less note. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-10-15 10:02 |