Review article
Plotnikov Alleged – a Boost to the International Promotion of Croatian Science Represented by the Technical Faculty
Branko Hanžek
; Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
A comprehensive account is given of the alleged phenomenon of longitudinal light scattering, a phenomenon first detected by Plotnikov and named after him the Plotnikov effect. The subject matter is presented from the initial delusion to the final refutation. The introduction describes the Zeeman, Starkov, Compton, Raman and the deceptive Plotnikov effects. Developments in Zagreb and abroad associated with the Raman and the deceptive Plotnikov effect are also discussed. Documented information is provided on Šplait’s dissertation at the Technical Faculty in Zagreb and a written polemics between Šplait on one side and Katalinić and Vrkljan on the other. Katalinić’s review of articles by R.S. Krishnan and S.M. Mitra, the Indian physicists, the followers of Nobel laureate C.V. Raman, who would not confirm Plotnikov’s alleged finding, is included as well. The Plotnikov effect was identified as the earlier known Mie effect. The Plotnikov effect greatly influenced the thinking and research work of Croatian physicists, biologists and physiologists, and some distinguished foreign physicists and chemists. It was also the topic with which physicist Katalinić took an active part at the International Scientific Symposium in Paris in 1937 as corresponding member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Keywords
longitudinal light scattering; Plotnikov effect; international promotion of Croatian science; Technical Faculty in Zagreb
Hrčak ID:
139374
URI
Publication date:
15.7.2014.
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