A.F.Ioffe as a physicist and organizer of new directions of physical studies in post-revolutionary Russia. His interest in the development of technical applications of basic research. His idea expressed in 1931 concerning a great practical role of semiconductors in future, in partidular, for thermoelectric energy conversion. The first investigations of thermoelectric properties of semiconductors carried out at the Physical-Technical Institute. Thermoelectric generators and coolers. A.F.Ioffe's theory of energy application of semiconductors. Ioffe's books on thermoelectricity.
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