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1906, Dec
2 — born to a physician's family in Vinnitsa, Ukraine

1925 — first scientific publications (on photon structure of X-rays)
1926 — entered Leningrad University
1929 — work on astrophysics (Hopf-Bronstein
relation), first works in popular science
1930 — started his work at the Leningrad Physico-Technical
Institute
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1931 —
the first Soviet review on cosmology in Physics-Uspekhi
1931, spring — met Lydia Chukovskaya
1932-33 — works on the theory of semiconductors, nuclear physics, cosmology;
began work on a popular science book for children "Solar matter"
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1934 — note on the problem of ch-measurability:
Zur relativistischen Erweiterung des
Unbestimmtheitsprinzipes. C.
R. Acad. Sci. URSS. 1934.
Bd. 1, S. 390-392.
the first version of the
book "Solar matter" is published
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1935, Nov 22 — doctoral dissertation "Quantization of gravitational waves"; Igor Tamm and
Vladimir Fock the opponents
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1936 —two articles on quantum gravity:
Quantentheorie schwacher Gravitationsfelder
// PZS. 1936. Bd. 9. S. 140-157.
Kvantovanie gravitatsionnykh voln [Quantizing of gravitational waves] // ZhETF, 1936, Vol. 6, pp. 195-236
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1936-37 - published are popular science books for children
"Solar Matter",
"X rays", and
"Inventors of Radio"
(see. Солнечное
вещество. Лучи икс. Изобретатели радиотелеграфа. М.: Наука, 1990. 176
с. Библ. «Квант». Вып. 80)
1936-37 - Work on the impossibility of the spontaneous decay of the photon,
that reasserted the fact of cosmological expansion:
Ueber den Spontanen Zerffall der Photonen // PZS. 1936. Bd. 10. S. 686-688.
O vozmozhnosti spontannogo
rachsheplenia fotonov [On possibility of spontaneous splitting of photons]
// ZhETF, 1937, Vol. 7, pp. 335-358.
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1937, August 6 - Matvei Bronshein is arrested
in his parents' home in Kiev
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1938, February 3 - Stalin's signature authorized the execution list, which included M. Bronstein
1938, Feb. 18 - Military Collegium of the Supreme
Court and the execution in the Leningrad prison
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House in St.Petersburg, where Matvey
Bronstein and Lydia Chukovskaya lived in the 1930s, and a memorial plaque
dedicated to both of them
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