Reformatstkiy

Alexander Reformatskiy (29 Oct 1900, Moscow-3 May 1978, Moscow) was born in the family of chemical scientist, his father was a Professor in the field of Chemistry. R. graduated the historically-philology major of Moscow university in 1923. R. worked as an editor in several publishing houses and in higher schools of his native city, including the Moscow city pedagogical institute, the Literature institute and the MSU, where he founded theLaboratory of experimental phonetics. Since 1950 he proceed his career in the Institute of linguistics of Science Academy of Soviet Union. Under his tutoringworked such people as Melchuk, Froumkina, Vinogradov and other linguists. His contribution in the science is huge indeed. His works played significant role in the field in phonetics, semiotics, phonology, etc. The scientific heritage is enormous and it affect the whole history of modern linguistics and the correlated fields. R. studied deeply vast majority of his main ideas and his books devoted to this studying, which are enthusiastically used not only among linguists but also among the people from non-linguistic majors. To his famous works belong the following: -"Technical edition of text"; -"From the history of national phonology"; -"Phonological etudes" and others. R. belonged to the type of science who were much more interested in the formulating and emboding the new idea, rather than work out the previous. Hi also had his own style of narration - it was vivid and easy to understand. That's why his ideas were vastly spreader among all the lays of society, regardless to whether they were scientists or not. In the honor of R. were wrote a lot of books - memoirs of his disciples (Il'una, Froumkina, Alpatov).

Main publications: Il'una M.A. In the memory of Reformatskiy, Froumkina. My teacher Reformatskiy, Alpatov. Linguistic Moscow