Dimitri Rozhdestvensky

[1] 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.

He worked in Giessen with Paul Drude from 1901 to 1903 before returning to St. Petersburg.

He developed theories to explain atomic spectra.

He is buried in the Literatorskie mostki (writers' footways) section of the Volkovo Cemetery in St.