Biography

Yanson’s scientific interests cover tunnel and microcontact spectroscopy of normal metals, superconductors, compounds with heavy fermions and mixed valence, semimetals and semiconductors; biophysical studies of binding energy in molecular crystals. In 1964, the scientist for the first time records electromagnetic radiation generated by the tunel structure, which directly proves the existence of the Josephson effect. An important achievement is the discovery of the method of microcontact spectroscopy providing a new approach to studies of interaction between conduction electrons and different types of quasi-particle excitation in metal systems. Yanson is the creator of experimental approaches and methods in biophysical research such as field mass-spectroscopy of binding energy in vacuum between the nitrogen bases of nucleic acids coding the genetic information in DNA and the method of quartz resonator for studies of enthalpy in molecular crystals of the nitrogen bases and their derivatives.

Yanson is the author of 250 scientific works, including five monographs and four inventions.

Titles

Merited Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine (2005).

Awards

Laureate of State Prize of Ukraine (1980), M. Ostrovsky Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology (1967); Hewlett-Packard Europhysics Prize of European Physical Society (1987), Humboldt Prize (1996), B. Verkin Prize of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2006), Lise Meitner Prize (Sweden, 2008), Order of Merit, Class III (2008).