Kirlian
Semyon and Valentina Kirlian
Semyon Davidovich Kirlian was inventor and researcher, who along with his wife Valentina Khrisantovna Kirlian, a teacher and journalist, discovered and developed Kirlian Photography and many other technologies.
Kirlian was born in Yekaterinodar, now Krasnodar, Russia of Armenian descent. 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 Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, part of the Soviet Union. He married Valentina Khrisanovna in 1930.
During his life Semyon Davidovich invented many useful things. The city printing press used its electric furnace for casting fonts, flour mills – magnetic devices for cleaning grain.
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