Georges Lakhovsky
{{Short description|French engineer and writer (1869–1942)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth-date|17 September 1870}}
| birth_place = Ilya, Minsk Region, Russian Empire
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| death_place = New York City, U.S.
| resting_place = Passy Cemetery, Paris
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| other_names = Georges Lakhovski
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| nationality = Russian, French
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| alma_mater = Engineering Institute of Odessa
| known_for = Multiple wave oscillator
(An alternative medical device)
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Georges Lakhovsky (born Georgei Lakhovsky; {{langx|ru|Георгий Лаховский}}; 17 September 1869 – 31 August 1942) was a Russian-French engineer, author,{{cite journal |last1=Ritchie |first1=James |title=The Secret of Life |journal=Nature |date=October 1940 |volume=146 |issue=3704 |pages=538 |doi=10.1038/146538a0 |bibcode=1940Natur.146..538R |s2cid=28012774 |doi-access=free}} and inventor.
Life
Lakhovsky's controversial medical treatment invention, the Multiple Wave Oscillator, is described as having been used by him in the treatment of cancer. The main circuit basically consists of concentric rings forming electrical dipole antennas having capacitive gaps opposing each other by 180° (called Lakhovsky antennas). The circuit is fed with high voltage and high frequency impulses from a generator, usually a spark gap Tesla coil or Oudin coil. If set up correctly, the unit is supposed to create a broad band frequency spectrum of low amplitude, covering a much greater range of frequencies, from 1 Hz to 300 GHz, than those of the exciting generator (usually several 100 kHz to a few MHz from a Tesla transformer or several kilohertz from an induction coil). The power of each individual frequency in this broad band noise spectrum is very low. In order to create more harmonics and sub-harmonics, an additional spark gap on the secondary side has been found in some devices, being mounted directly on the antenna, or being mounted in parallel to the secondary coil.
In 1940 Lakhovsky emigrated from Europe to the United States via Portugal. He left Lisbon on 23 November aboard the liner {{SS|Nyassa||2}}, and arrived in New York on 4 December.{{cite news |title=Portuguese Ship Brings 458 Here From War-Stricken Countries |url-access=subscription |newspaper=The New York Times |date=5 December 1940 |page=16 |access-date=2 May 2024 |via=Times Machine |url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/12/05/91589714.html?pageNumber=16}}
Works
- The Secret of Life, London: William Heinemann (Medical Books), Ltd., 1939; Modern edition 2007 {{ISBN|978-142092995-9}}.
- {{cite book|author-mask=0|last=Lakhovsky|first=George|year=1925|language=fr|title=L'Origine de la vie: La radiation et les êtres vivants|trans-title=The Origin of Life: Radiation and Living Beings|location=Paris|publisher= Gauthier-Villars|oclc=806366827}}
- {{cite book|author-mask=0|last=Lakhovsky|first=George|year=1926|language=fr|title=Les ondes qui guérissent|trans-title=The Waves that Heal|location=Paris|publisher=C.O.L.Y.S.A|oclc=771602260}}
- La Terre et Nous (The Earth and Us) (in French) 1933; modern edition {{ISBN|978-29-5429-444-5}}.
- {{cite book|author-mask=0|last=Lakhovsky|first=George|year=1939|language=fr|title=La civilisation et la folie raciste|trans-title=Civilization and Racist Madness|location=Paris|publisher=S.A.C.L.|oclc=16522791}}
See also
- {{annotated link|Antoine Prioré}}
- {{annotated link|Bioelectromagnetics}}
- {{annotated link|Electromagnetic therapy}}
- {{annotated link|Energy medicine}}
- {{annotated link|Flexner Report}}
- {{annotated link|Hulda Regehr Clark}}
- {{annotated link|Pseudoscience}}
- {{annotated link|Radionics}}
- {{annotated link|Royal Rife}}
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book|last1=Adam|first1=Michel|last2=Givelet|first2=Amanda|year=1936|language=fr|title=La vie et les ondes: L'œuvre de Georges Lakhovsky|trans-title=Life and Waves: The Work of Georges Lakhovsky|location=Paris|publisher=Etienne Chiron|oclc=937193037}}
- {{cite book|doi=10.1007/978-1-4684-4388-2_2|chapter=Hyperthermia for Malignant Disease — A History of Medicine Note — the Work of Georges Lakhovsky|title=Hyperthermia|series=Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology|year=1982|last1=Farrell|first1=Kevin|volume=157|pages=9–10|pmid=6760702|isbn=978-1-4684-4390-5|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eEbUBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA9}}
- {{cite journal|last=Fischoff|first=Ephraim|title=Review: La Civilisation et la Folie Raciste|journal=American Sociological Review|volume=7|issue=4|year=1942|pages=578–9|doi=10.2307/2085066|jstor=2085066}}
External links
- Original George Lakhovsky Multiple Wave Oscillator Reverse Engineered by MultiWaveResearch: https://www.multiwaveresearch.com/
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txXhy5EqjHw Lakhovsky Multiple Wave Oscillator], YouTube
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