The Physicotechnical Institute conducts its history from the department of the same name of the State X-ray and Radiological Institute (GRRI), established in September 1918 on the initiative of professors A.F. Ioffe and M.I. Nemenova. World renown brought institute work in the field of solid state physics, semiconductors, quantum electronics, astrophysics, plasma physics, physical gas dynamics. The work of the institute's staff in interplanetary physics and cosmology, controlled thermonuclear fusion, and the motion of bodies in the atmospheres of the Earth and other planets are well known to specialists.
The postage stamp depicts the bust of A.F. Ioffe works by sculptor GD Glikman and the building of the Physicotechnical Institute A.F. Ioffe Academy of Sciences.
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Comb 12:12¼ |
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168000 |