The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists
Subtitle: 2 Volume Set
Contributors: Roy Porter (Editor); Marilyn Ogilvie (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: May 18, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1196
ISBN-13: 9780195216639
First sentence: Lebedev, Pyotr Nikolayevich (1866-1912) Russian physicist whose most important contribution to science was the detection and measurement of the pressure that light exerts on bodies, an effect that had been predicted by James Clerk Maxwell in his electromagnetic theory of light.