Yuri Rumer

Yuri Borisovich Rumer (Russian: Юрий Борисович Румер, 28 April 1901 – 1 February 1985) was a Soviet theoretical physicist, who mostly worked in the fields of quantum mechanics and quantum optics. Known in the West as Georg Rumer, he was a close friend of Lev Landau, and was arrested with him during the Great Purge in 1938.

Yuriy Rumer
Rumer c. 1920s
Born(1901-04-28)28 April 1901
Died1 February 1985(1985-02-01) (aged 83)
Alma materMoscow State University
AwardsOrder of the Badge of Honour
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics
InstitutionsMSU Faculty of Physics
Novosibirsk State University
Doctoral studentsValery Pokrovsky
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