George V. Skrotskii (January 11, 1915 – July 13, 1992) was a Russian physicist.
Skrotskii realized that electromagnetic field equations in a curved spacetime can be written in a non-covariant form formally equivalent to Maxwell's equations in a macroscopic medium in flat spacetime.
References
- A.A. Kolokolov/G.V. Skrotskii."Interference of reactive components of an electromagnetic field". Soviet Physics - Uspekhi, Vol. 35, No. 12 (1992), pp. 1089–1093.
- G.V. Pokazaniev/G.V. Skrotskii. " The Basics of Torsion Mechanics. Psevdomagnetizm. //Uspekhi fizicheskikh nauk, 1979, v. 129, # 4, p. 615. (Russian)
- The gravitational effect is known as gravitational Faraday rotation or the Rytov or Skrotskii effect. Lett. 23 (1983) 235–237. GV Skrotskii, The influence of gravitation on the propagation of light, Sov. Phys. Doklady 2
External links
- Nader Haghighipour
- Biography of G. V. Skrotskii (in Russian)
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