Nadiashda or Nadejda Galli-Shohat (died March 6, 1948)[1] was a Russian physicist. Born Nadiashda Kokaoulina in Siberia,[2] she graduated from the Women's University of Petrograd in 1903,[3] joined the Bolshevik Party after the 1905 Russian Revolution,[2] and took the name Galli upon marrying her first husband.[4] She received her doctorate from Göttingen in 1914,[5] worked at the Yekaterinburg Meteorological Observatory from 1915 to 1917, and from 1917 to 1922 was professor and chair of the physics department at Ural Federal University,[3] after which she worked at the University of Petrograd's State Optical Institute.[6] Together with her second husband, the mathematician James Alexander Shohat, she migrated to the United States in 1923.[5][7] She was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1931.[8][9] She taught physics at the University of Michigan, Mount Holyoke, Rockford College, Bryn Mawr,[7] and the University of Pennsylvania.[1]

In addition, Galli-Shohat is known for a biography of her nephew, the composer Dmitri Shostakovich, coauthored by her and Victor Seroff. Titled Dmitri Shostakovich: The Life And Background Of A Soviet Composer, it was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1943.[2][10] Galli-Shohat died on March 6, 1948, at the Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia.[11]

References

  1. 1 2 "The Choir Invisible". Etude. Vol. 66, no. 5. May 1948. p. 277.
  2. 1 2 3 Wilson, Elizabeth (2011-03-03). Shostakovich: A Life Remembered. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-26115-4.
  3. 1 2 Bryn Mawr College Calendar 1932–1934. 1934. p. 113.
  4. ↑ Selby, John (July 23, 1944). "Shostakovich's Aunt Says He's Shy". Abilene Reporter-News. p. 46. Retrieved 2020-08-21 – via newspapers.com.
  5. 1 2 Zitarelli, David E. (2001). EPADEL: A Semisesquicentennial History, 1926-2000. Raymond-Reese Book Company. ISBN 0-9647077-0-5. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
  6. ↑ "Miss Park Announces Foreign Fellowships" (PDF). The College News. Bryn Mawr College. 1932-03-23.
  7. 1 2 Kline, J. R. (3 November 1944). "Obituary: James Alexander Shohat". Science. 100 (2601): 397–398. doi:10.1126/science.100.2601.397. PMID 17799450.
  8. ↑ "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
  9. ↑ Anonymous (1931-04-15). "Minutes of the New York Meeting, February 26-28, 1931 Joint Meeting with the Optical Society of America". Physical Review. 37 (8): 1010–1024. Bibcode:1931PhRv...37.1010.. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.37.1010. ISSN 0031-899X.
  10. ↑ "Family Portrait". Time. Vol. 42, no. 8. 1943-08-23. pp. 38–40. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
  11. ↑ "Mrs. James A. Shohat, Obituary". The New York Times. 7 March 1948. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
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