Abram Ioffe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Soviet physicist
Date of Birth: 17-Oct-1880
Place of Birth: Romny, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine
Date of Death: 14-Oct-1960
Profession: physicist, inventor
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Abram Ioffe
- Abram Fedorovich Ioffe (Russian: ????´? ????????? ??´???, IPA: [?'bram 'f??d?r?v??t? ?'of?]; 29 October [O.S.
- 17 October] 1880 – 14 October 1960) was a prominent Russian/Soviet physicist.
- He received the Stalin Prize (1942), the Lenin Prize (1960) (posthumously), and the Hero of Socialist Labor (1955).
- Ioffe was an expert in various areas of solid state physics and electromagnetism.
- He established research laboratories for radioactivity, superconductivity, and nuclear physics, many of which became independent institutes.
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