AVENARIUS Mikhail Petrovich

Born in 1835 in Tsarskoe Selo, died in 1895 and in 1858 he graduated St. Petersburg University and received a teacher at Second Saint-Petersburg High School. In 1862 A. was sent abroad until the end of 1864 he studied physics at the Magnus in Berlin and Kirchhoff in Heidelberg. Upon his return in 1865 he defended his master's thesis on thermoelectricity and was appointed to the chair of physics at Kiev University. Protection in 1866 doctoral dissertation "On the electrical differences of metals at different temperatures, was appointed full professor. A. known primarily for his work on Thermoelectrics and the critical temperature. From the Laboratory A. out, among other things, the first detailed and accurate determination of the critical temperature of many liquids, produced by him and his. In 1880 A. offered a special way of sewage alternating electric current for lighting purposes. His works: "On thermoelectricity", thesis for M.Sc. in Physics (1863) and "On the electrical differences of metals at different temperatures". Discourse on the degree of Doctor of Physics (1866). Full list of his works and biographical information about this outstanding scholar placed in the article A.G. Stoletov, "Stamp. Avenarius "in the Journal of R. Physico-Chemical Society ", XXVII. Part nat. 1895, p.. 221.