Yakov Perelman
Yakov Perelman Issidorowitsch (Russian Яков Исидорович Перельман; * 22 Novemberjul / December 4 1882greg in Białystok, .. † March 16, 1942 in Leningrad) was a Russian scientist, journalist and author.
Life
Perelman grew up in the former Grodno of the Russian Empire. Together with his brother he began studying at the St. Petersburg Forest Institute. During his studies he worked as a proofreader at a publishing house and began to deal with the journalistic representation of the natural sciences. From 1901 he worked for the magazine Priroda i ljudi (natural and human ). In 1904 he was editor in chief. After a long interruption of studies by illness, he finished it in 1909 with a degree in forestry.
However, he never worked in this profession, but devoted himself to the work as an author and educator. He was in the first six years after the October Revolution lecturer in physics and mathematics at various institutes and authored 18 textbooks. 1915 married Yakov Perelman the doctor Anna Kaminskaja.
In 1917, he worked as Managing Director of the "Special Conference on fuels " and suggested to introduce the clocks in Russia for energy saving one hour which was adopted as law. Then Perelman served as inspector of the National Education Ministry of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( RSFSR ) and worked out curricula and materials for physics and mathematics. Nadezhda Krupskaya With he founded the popular science magazine W masterskoi prirody ( In the workshop of nature) and worked there as an editor until 1927.
After the Second World War, he gave lectures on air protection and air defense and worked as an instructor during the Leningrad blockade. After his son was killed, his wife died early in 1942. He himself succumbed to the privations on 16 March of the same year.
In total, he wrote over 100 books, who experienced 400 runs alone in the Soviet Union and were printed in over 13 million copies.
Others
According to him, the moon crater Perelman was named.
Literature (selection )
- Popular Physics. Verlag MIR, Moskau / VEB publishers, Leipzig, 1989, ISBN 3-343-00465-0