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Created: 07.2.2011
Updated: 17.7.2015

Biography
Antonia Peeva
(1923 – 2006)

Born:

    Nina Peeva was born in Asenovgrad.

Education:

    She studied physics and graduated from the Sofia University (1941 – 1946)

    She specialised in the Institute of Nuclear Physics at the Jagelon University in Krakow, Poland (1962).

Scientific Research:

    She take part in the expedition for measurement quantity of Rd in the rivers near Sofia and in the Black Sea and Varna Like.

    Investigating gas discharge she improved self-extinguished processesgas and buil improved Geiger-Muller counter for measuring cosmic ray in the Musala station.

Professional experience:

    Nina Peeva taught physics in the Asenovgrad for a short time.

    She was assistant and associate professor in the chair of nuclear physics at the Sofia University (1947 - 1988) headed by Elisabet Karamichailova at the begining.

    In the Union of physicists in Bulgaria Nina Peeva was vice president. For a long time she was member of the editorial board of the Bulletin. She initiated creation the physicist club in Sofia.

    Nina Peeva played the piano and painted graphics and aquarelle.

References:

  1. Н. Щърбов, 90 години от рождението на доц. Антония Пеева, Светът на физиката, кн 3, 2013, с. 359-362

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