This paper offers a biography of the eminent scientist Yurii Borisovich Rumer (1901-1985). The appendix features two accounts in which Yu B Rumer describes his work in Göttingen and his encounters with A Einstein between 1929-1932.
PACS: 01.60.+g DOI:10.1070/PU2001v044n10ABEH001106 URL: https://ufn.ru/en/articles/2001/10/m/ 000173788400013 Citation: Ginzburg I F, Mikhailov M Yu, Pokrovskii V L "Yurii Borisovich Rumer (on the 100th anniversary of his birth)" Phys. Usp.44 1075–1081 (2001)