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Kirlian Photograph Of A Coleus Leaf 1980
Kirlian may refer to: * Semyon Davidovich Kirlian (1898–1978), Russian inventor and researcher of Armenian descent * Kirlian photography Kirlian photography is a collection of photographic techniques used to capture the phenomenon of electrical coronal discharges. It is named after Semyon Kirlian, who, in 1939, accidentally discovered that if an object on a photographic plate i ...
, a photographic technique, named after Semyon and his wife Valentina Kirlian * Kirlian, the pseudonym of (born 1968), American techno-musician and producer {{disambiguation ...
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Semyon Davidovich Kirlian
Semyon Davidovich Kirlian (; russian: Семён Давидович Кирлиан; hy, Սիմոն Կիրլյան; 20 February 1898 – 4 April 1978) was a Soviet inventor and researcher of Armenian descent, who along with his wife Valentina Khrisanfovna Kirlian (russian: Валентина Хрисанфовна Кирлиан; 1904—1971), a teacher and journalist, discovered and developed Kirlian photography. Early life Kirlian was born in 1898 Yekaterinodar, Russian Empire (now Krasnodar, Russia) in an Armenian family. He possessed an early interest in, and aptitude for, work with electricity. Just before the Russian Revolution of 1917, Kirlian attended a conference in his home city at which Nikola Tesla gave talks and demonstrations; Tesla was one of Kirlian's predecessors in the field of corona discharge photography. In the 1930s Kirlian earned his living as an electrician in Krasnodar, near the eastern coast of the Black Sea in southern Russia—then the Russian So ...
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