Boris Borisovich Galitzine

Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Prince Galitzine ( Russian Борис Борисович Голицын, Boris Borisovich Galitzine English transcription, .. * 18 Februarjul / March 2 1862greg in Saint Petersburg; † 4 Maijul / May 17 1916greg in Petrograd.. ) Was a Russian geophysicist and meteorologist.

Golitsyn descended from the ancient Russian princely family Galitzine. He attended the School of the Moscow Cadet Corps, the Moscow State University ( 1891-1893 ) and the University of Strasbourg (1887 ). He was a professor at the University of Dorpat and later until his death ( after a short illness near Sankt Petersburg) Head of the Meteorological Service of the Russian Empire (located in the Central Nikolas Observatory in St. Petersburg and in the summer in Constantine Observatory in nearby Pavlovsk ). He also lectured on physics at universities in Saint Petersburg as the Medical College.

Galizyn is known for the invention of the electrodynamic seismographs 1904.

In 1911 he became president of the International Seismological Society, today the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth 's Interior. In 1912, he was over his seismograph a plenary lecture at the ICM in Cambridge.

He was a foreign member of the Royal Society and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. A Russian ship was named after him ( Akademik Golitsyn ).

Writings

• Lectures on seismometry, 1912 (Russian and German )