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Memoirs

Created: 07.1.2012
Updated: 29.5.2023

Professor
STOYAN CHRISTOV PETROV
17.01.1905 – †13.07.1991

Born in village Polska Skakavitsa

Education

He finished Sofia University

He had Hymboldt specialization in Gottingen (1943) where he worked with Professor Robert Paul

Research

Stoyan Petrov detected and examineed new types of color centers in ionic crystals and method for pure substances

Professional experience

Stoyan Petrov was teacher in Plovdiv and in III Men's High School in Sofia (1981)

He was first dean of the Technical Faculty at the University of Varna (1945), where he founded Department of Physics

Latter on in Ruse he established and headed the Department of Physics at the Higher Technical School "Angel Kanchev" (in 1954)

Awards

Member Fellow of the Society of the Physicists in Bulgaria

Publications

  1. S. Petroff, Zs. fur Pysik (127) s. 443 (1950)

References

  1. In Memoriam. Професор Стоян Христов Петров (1939 – 2011), Светът на физиката, (3) с. 196 (1991)

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