Abstract
FOR his outstanding work in physics, Prof. A. F. Joffe has been awarded the Order of Lenin, the highest honour in the Soviet Union. The award was made on the occasion of Prof. Joffe's sixtieth birthday. Prof. Joffe's study of the mechanical and electrical properties of crystals has gained him a world-wide reputation. His work on the photoelectric effect and the magnetic field of projectiles is of importance; during the past few years he has investigated semi-conductors. Under the guidance of Prof. Joffe, experiments have been carried out as a result of which it has been possible to increase the frost-resistance of Soviet-grown caoutchouc and to work out a new method for the manufacture of plastic synthetic rubber. He was responsible for the establishment of the Physico-Technical Institute in Leningrad in 1918, the first of a system of physico-technical and physico-chemical institutes in the Soviet Union in Kharkov, Dniepropetrovek, Sverdlovsk, Tomsk, and elsewhere. Prof. Joffe is a member of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. and also of many scientific academies of other countries.
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