Nadiashda or Nadejda Galli-Shohat (died March 6, 1948)[1] was a Russian physicist. Born Nadiashda Kokaoulina in Siberia, she graduated from the Women's University of Petrograd in 1903,[2] joined the Bolshevik Party after the 1905 Russian Revolution, and took the name Galli upon marrying her first husband.[3] She received her doctorate from Göttingen in 1914,[4] worked at the Yekaterinburg Meteorological Observatory from 1915 to 1917, and from 1917 to 1922 was professor and chair of the physics department at Ural Federal University,[2] after which she worked at the University of Petrograd's State Optical Institute.[5] Together with her second husband, the mathematician James Alexander Shohat, she migrated to the United States in 1923.[6] She was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1931.[7] [8] She taught physics at the University of Michigan, Mount Holyoke, Rockford College, Bryn Mawr,[6] and the University of Pennsylvania.[1]
In addition, Galli-Shohat is known for a biography of her nephew, the composer Dmitri Shostakovich, coauthored by her and Victor Seroff. Titled Dmitri Shostakovich: The Life And Background Of A Soviet Composer, it was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1943.[9] [10] Galli-Shohat died on March 6, 1948, at the Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia.[11]