This article gives a portrait of a pioneer of Soviet physics, who played a large role in building up theoretical physics in the USSR. At the beginning of this century V. R. Bursian carried out research on the physics of currents in gases and in a vacuum, on dispersion and gyration, on the electron theory of matter, and on the kinetics of chain reactions. Electrophysical methods for geological exploration were first developed by him.

RT Journal
T1 Viktor Robertovich Bursian (1886–1945)
A1 Bursian,É.V.
PB Physics-Uspekhi
PY 1988
FD 10 Jun, 1988
JF Physics-Uspekhi
JO Phys. Usp.
VO 31
IS 6
SP 555-557
DO 10.1070/PU1988v031n06ABEH003565
LK https://ufn.ru/en/articles/1988/6/d/