Lev Shubnikov

Lev Vasilyevich Shubnikov (Russian:Лев Васи́льевич Шу́бников; Ukrainian:Лев Васильович Шубников) (September 9, 1901— November 10, 1937) was a Soviet experimental physicist who worked in the Netherlands and USSR.

Shubnikov was born into the family of a Saint Petersburg accountant. After graduating from a gymnasium he entered Leningrad University. This was the first year of the Russian Civil War and he was the only student of that year attending the physics department. While yachting in the Gulf of Finland in 1921, he accidentally sailed from Saint Petersburg to Finland, was sent to Germany and could not return to Russia until 1922. He then continued his education in the Leningrad Polytechnical Institute, graduating in 1926. During his university training he worked with Ivan Obreimov, developing a new method for growing monocrystals of metals.