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Leon Theremin
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Russian inventor, physicist, and musician (1896-1993)
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Leon Theremin (1896–1993) was a Russian inventor, physicist, musician, and cellist. Born in Saint Petersburg, he held citizenship in the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, United States, and Russia. His notable works include the theremin, The Thing, and the Rhythmicon. He was educated at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory and Peter the Great Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University.
Theremin served as an employee of the Moscow Conservatory, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and the Ioffe Institute. He held positions as a head of department and chief executive officer. A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he was married to Lavinia Williams. He resided in Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Magadan Oblast, and the United States.
He spoke French, English, and Russian. Theremin experienced arrest and subsequent rehabilitation. He died in Moscow and is buried in Kuntsevo Cemetery.
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Lev Sergeyevich Termen (27 August [O.S. 15 August] 1896 – 3 November 1993), better known as Leon Theremin was a Russian inventor, most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments and the first to be mass-produced. As a young man, Theremin worked at Abram Fedorovich Ioffe’s Physical Technical Institute in Petrograd. While he worked on an array of projects, developing measuring methods for high-frequency electrical oscillations was one of the most imp
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5 total works indexed
- A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
· 1957 · cited 17,062x
- A Theory of Social Comparison Processes
· 1954 · cited 14,475x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,873x
- PhysioBank, PhysioToolkit, and PhysioNet
· 2000 · cited 12,071x
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,252x
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Key facts
- Born
- Lev Sergeyevich Termen , ( 1896-08-27 ) 27 August 1896, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Died
- 3 November 1993 (1993-11-03) (aged 97), Moscow, Russia
- Occupations
- Engineer physicist
- Known for
- Theremin , The Thing
- Spouses
- Katia Konstantinova ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1924 , divorced ) Lavinia Williams ( separated ) Maria Guschina ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1947 )
- Children
- 2, including Natalia
- Relatives
- Peter Theremin (grandson)
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Lev Sergeyevich Termen (27 August [O.S. 15 August] 1896 – 3 November 1993), better known as Leon Theremin, was a Russian inventor, most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments and the first to be mass-produced. He also worked on early television research. His secret listening device, "The Thing", hung for seven years in plain view in the United States ambassador's Moscow office and enabled Soviet agents to secretly eavesdrop on conversations.
Early life
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