Elephter Andronikashvili

Elephter Luarsabovich Andronikashvili (the first name sometimes spelled Elevter or Elefter, Georgian: ელეფთერ ანდრონიკაშვილი, Russian: Элевтер Луарсабович Андроникашвили; 25 December [O.S.

In 1940–1941 and 1945–1948 he also did his Doktor Nauk degree at the Institute for Physical Problems in Moscow.

[citation needed] Andronikashvili conducted early experiments on superfluid helium II, including the classic experiment in 1946, suggested by the Russian theorist Lev Landau, studying the period and damping of torsional oscillations of stacked closely spaced rotating disks.

Andronikshvili also worked together with Tsakadze in 1960 to extend work by Hall in Manchester on vortex waves in helium II, comparing the results with those obtained with classical fluids such as water and helium I to verify that the results obtained by Hall were not classical in nature.

[4] A review of this work appears in the chapter written for the 1967 Progress in Low Temperature Physics together with Mamaladze.