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Leon Theremin
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Russian inventor, physicist, and musician (1896-1993)
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Lev Sergeyevich Termen (27 August [O.S. 15 August] 1896 – 3 November 1993), better known as Leon Theremin was a Russian inventor, most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments and the first to be mass-produced. As a young man, Theremin worked at Abram Fedorovich Ioffe’s Physical Technical Institute in Petrograd. While he worked on an array of projects, developing measuring methods for high-frequency electrical oscillations was one of the most imp
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5 total works indexed
- A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
· 1957 · cited 16,811x
- A Theory of Social Comparison Processes
· 1954 · cited 14,134x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,063x
- PhysioBank, PhysioToolkit, and PhysioNet
· 2000 · cited 11,756x
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,076x
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Key facts
- Born
- Lev Sergeyevich Termen , ( 1896-08-27 ) 27 August 1896, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Died
- 3 November 1993 (1993-11-03) (aged 97), Moscow, Russia
- Occupations
- Engineer physicist
- Known for
- Theremin , The Thing
- Spouses
- Katia Konstantinova ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1924 , divorced ) Lavinia Williams ( separated ) Maria Guschina ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1947 )
- Children
- 2, including Natalia
- Relatives
- Peter Theremin (grandson)
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- Lev Termen playing - cropped.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
- Motto
- ni plus ni moins
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- Léon Theremin
- date of birth
- 1896-08-16
- date of death
- 1993-11-03
- name in native language
- Лев Сергеевич Термен
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Lev Sergeyevich Termen (27 August [O.S. 15 August] 1896 – 3 November 1993), better known as Leon Theremin, was a Russian inventor, most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments and the first to be mass-produced. He also worked on early television research. His secret listening device, "The Thing", hung for seven years in plain view in the United States ambassador's Moscow office and enabled Soviet agents to secretly eavesdrop on conversations.
Early life