Leon Theremin
Sign in to saveRussian inventor, physicist, and musician (1896-1993)
Person
- Born
- 1896-08-16
- Died
- 1993-11-03
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 500
- Total plays
- 1,222
Tags
early electronicTREMOLO radio
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
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
· 1957 · cited 16,758x
- A Theory of Social Comparison Processes
· 1954 · cited 14,085x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 12,959x
- PhysioBank, PhysioToolkit, and PhysioNet
· 2000 · cited 11,722x
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,035x
via Crossref · CC0
Key dates
- Born
- 16 August 1896
- Died
- 3 November 1993
via Wikidata · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lev
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Saint Petersburg
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Spouse
- Lavinia Williams
- Occupation
- cellist
- Position held
- chief executive officer
- Political party
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Connections
Categories
1896 births1993 deathsAcademic staff of Moscow ConservatoryAcademic staff of Moscow State UniversityBurials at Kuntsevo CemeteryCommunist Party of the Soviet Union membersEngineers from Saint PetersburgInventors of musical instrumentsLeon ThereminMusicians from Saint PetersburgPeople kidnapped by Soviet agentsRecipients of the Stalin Prize