Dimitri Sergeevich Rozhdestvensky (Russian: Дми́трий Серге́евич Рожде́ственский, 7 April 1876 – 25 June 1940) was a Russian physicist. He worked on spectroscopy, examining the dispersion of sodium lines. He drew up a proposal for the State Optical Institute which was established in 1918 in Petrograd.
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Education
Rozhdestvensky graduated in 1894 and went to study at St. Petersburg.
Career
He worked in Giessen with Paul Drude from 1901 to 1903 before returning to St. Petersburg. He was involved in establishing optics research. During this time, he was part of a group of physicists known at the St Petersburg physics circle, who organised regular meetings. Among them were Paul Ehrenfest, Abram Ioffe, Tatyana Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa and Jadwiga Szmidt.
He received a Mendeleev Medal in 1912. He became a professor of physics in 1916. He developed theories to explain atomic spectra. He is buried in the Literatorskie mostki (writers' footways) section of the Volkovo Cemetery in St. Petersburg.