Revalds, Valdis Fritsevich ( 1930 - 2015 ) was a Latvian scientist , physicist , author of outstanding books on physics, and a long-term assistant professor at the Latvian State University.
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Education
Born in Tukums County, the village of Dierciems. He studied at the seven-year primary school Dzirciems-Lamini, which he completed in six years with good results (1941-1947). From 1947 to 1950 he attended high school in Talsi . He studied physics at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the University of Latvia (1950–1955). The thesis was developed under the guidance of Professor E.K. Kraulina on the topic of determining the concentration of excited atoms in vapor mixtures of gases. After graduating from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the University of Latvia , he began working as a senior laboratory assistant. On the recommendation of E.K. Kraulini, 1959. was sent to graduate school at St. Petersburg_state_university where, under the guidance of the famous optician and spectroscopist Sergei Eduardovich Frisch, he worked in the USSR’s first department of optics at the Physics Department of St. Petersburg State University [1] . The research topic was the effective cross sections for direct and stepwise excitation of neon atoms . Research in graduate school at St. Petersburg State University lasted until 1962. Having already returned home in 1965, he defended his thesis of a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences.
Pedagogical and scientific qualifications
- Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1965)
- Associate Professor, Department of Experimental Physics, University of Latvia (1974)
- Doctor of Physics (1992)
- Honorary title of Honored Associate Professor (1994)
Work
- 1955-1959 - Senior Laboratory Assistant at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the University of Latvia (LU FMF)
- 1962-1963 - Assistant at LU FMF
- 1964-1968 - Senior Lecturer, LU FMF
- 1969-1973 - performer of the post of associate professor of LU FMF
- Since 1974 - Associate Professor of the University of Physics and Mathematics
Academic Activities
He stood at the beginning of the creation of a higher education in physics at the University of Latvia . Developed and taught physics courses at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the University of Latvia : Spectral Devices and Spectral Measurements, Practical Optics, Gas Discharge Physics and Elementary Processes in Plasma, optional course Practical Spectral Analysis, for bachelors in the Informatics program "- the Optics course, for the first time in Latvia, the Fourier Optics training course has been developed, as well as the History of Physics and Technology course. Laboratory work on experimental physics has been created and carried out. Supervised and reviewed student term papers and dissertations.
Publications
20 original editions of educational-methodical literature in Latvian were published, 7 - scientific publications, 100 articles were written for the Latvian Soviet Encyclopedia of Physics. He has written 2 popular science books in physics.
Key Publications
- Revalds V. Spectral devices. Leningrad State University, Riga, 292 pp. 1977.
- Revalds V. Elementary processes in plasma. Leningrad State University, Riga, 112 pp. 1985.
- Revalds V., Interferences in optics. Leningrad State University, Riga, 124 pp. 1993.
- Revalds V. Optics from antiquity to the present. Publishing house Mācību grāmata, Riga, 384 p. 2001.
- Revalds V. Pages on the history of physics and technology from a stone ax to a nuclear reactor. LU Academic Publishing House. 430 p. 2006.