GOLITSYN, BORIS BORISOVICH, PRINCE (1862 1916), Russian physicist, was born on Feb. 18 (old style) 1862 in St. Petersburg (Leningrad). He was educated in the naval school and naval academy. In 1887 he left the active service for scientific studies and went to Strassburg. In 1891 he was appointed privat docent at the University of Moscow and in 1893 professor of physics at Dorpat. The same year he was elected fellow of the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg and in 1908 a member of the same. His early research was in spectroscopy, but his world known work is on the methods of earthquake observations and on the construction of seismographs, which are used in all Russian and in many foreign observatories. His valuable book, Lectures on Seismometry, was published in 1912 and translated into Ger man in 1914. He received the degree of D.Sc. from the University of Manchester in 191o. In 1911 he was elected president of the International Seismological association. In 1913 he was appointed director of the Central Physical (now Geophysical) observatory at St. Petersburg and achieved good results in the organization of the meteorological service throughout Russia, especially during the World War, but his work was cut short by his death from pneumonia on May 4, 1916, at New Peterhof, near St. Petersburg.
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