Serge Alexander Korff was a Finnish-born American physicist and a pioneer of cosmic ray research. He invented the wire proportional counter particle detectors.
Early life
Serge Alexander Korff was born at June 5, 1906 in Helsinki. His father, baron was an assistant of Governor-General of Finland, then part of the Russian Empire, and a professor of the Russian law at the University of Helsinki. The family moved to the US after the Russian Revolution of 1917. Writer Vladimir Nabokov was his cousin. == Career ==
Career
Korff got a B.A. (1928), M.A. (1929), and Ph.D. (1931) at Princeton University. == Personal life ==
Personal life
Korff was married three times: to American art critic Alice Graeme (divorced, two daughters Alexandra Scott and Alice Boardman), to Betty Hurd Renshaw (died in 1975), and to Marcella Heron. == Awards and honors ==
Awards and honors
• Chevalier of the Legion of Honor (1952) == Further reading ==