SHNIRMAN,GEORGII,LVOVICH - DESIGNER OF HI GH-SPEED INSTRUMENTS

A biography is given of G L Shnirman, the outstanding Russian scientis t, whose scientific life had been classified as 'top secret'. He was a n experimental physicist and instrument designer, the founder of many instruments-making techniques in Russia, and was the originator of the theory of integration and variation by electric methods, pendulum ast atisation theory, and of other original measurements methods. He was t he designer of automatic control systems in the measuring apparatus fo r nuclear tests ranges, automatic seismic stations series used for the nuclear tests control, designer of the first native mirror-galvanomet er oscillographs, high-speed cameras (moving-image camera, high-speed time magnifiers and so on) and many other unique instruments, includin g some mounted on moving objects.