Vladimir Konstantinovich Arkadiev (Russian: Владимир Константинович Аркадьев; 21 April 1884 – 1 December 1953) was a Russian and Soviet physicist who studied magnetism and related phenomena. He was among the first to make use of the

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to levitate magnets as a test of superconductivity. Arkadiev was born in Moscow. While still a young boy, his father died and his mother worked in a library leading to an early interest in studies. While still at high school he met

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and became interested in physics. He joined

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in 1904 and studied ferromagnetism under fields under

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. Arkadiev's studies were interrupted by political troubles, quitting in 1911 to protest the administration of

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. He specialized in ferromagnetism and discovered

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in 1913. After the

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, he returned to Moscow University to establish a laboratory where he worked until the end of his life. Along with his wife and fellow-researcher Alexandra Glagoleva-Arkadieva he worked on electromagnetic wave spectroscopy in 1922-24. He became an associate member of the

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in 1927.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Arkadiev, Vladimir 1884 births 1953 deaths Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Russian physicists Soviet physicists Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery