Pogorelko Alexander Konstantinovich

Born in 1848. He was educated in the 5-th St. Petersburg and the 3rd Kharkov gymnasiums, at the end of the course enrolled in the University of Kharkov. As a student, was abstracts on current scientific issues. Upon its completion in 1871, was left at the university to prepare for the title of professor. In 1873, Mr.. Protection dissertation ( "The intercourse between the index of refraction and other properties of bodies") was promoted to a privat-docent in 1874, according to the election department, taught a course of theoretical physics. In 1878, . to protect the thesis: "Investigation of some special cases of motion of fluids", . was elected associate professor of the University and sent abroad for a year and a half, . where he worked in the laboratories under the guidance of Quincke and Helmholtz on the deformations of a solid under the influence of electrical pressure,
. Results published in "Annals Poggendorfa for 1880. In 1885, Mr.. entered the service of the Kharkov Institute of Technology. Apart from the works, . published: "A method of determining the refractive index" (in "Proceedings of the Kiev Congress of Naturalists", . 1871), . "The general theory of reflection and refraction of polarized light" (in "Proceedings of the Congress of Kazan", . 1873), . "Application of photography to the study of electrical phenomena", . "The beginning of conservation of matter", . "On Energy" (in "Proceedings of the Kharkov Physico-Chemical Society of Sciences", . 1896), . "Heating" job, . "Electric lighting of cities" (in "Proceedings of the Kharkiv branch of the Imperial Russian Technical Society, . 1897), . "Municipal electric lights" (in "Proceedings of the Southern-Russian Society for Technology", . 1897),
. Pogorelko often read essays on various scientific issues in the Society of Experimental Sciences, which he is vice-chairman, and also took part in public affairs rank vowel City Council.