Nikolay Umov

Nikolay Alekseevich Umov was a Russian physicist and mathematician known for discovering the concept of UmovPoynting vector and Umov effect.

Umov was born in 1846 in Simbirsk in the family of a military doctor. He graduated from the Physics and Mathematics department of Moscow State University in 1867 and became a Professor of Physics in 1875. He studied theoretical physics by reading works of Gabriel Lam, Clebsch and Clausius, that made a significant impact on the originality of his later ideas in physics.

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