"Glowing monk" Moscow was a Soviet scientist-chemist

In the twenties of the last century in Moscow there was suddenly a Glowing monk. So this mysterious Ghost called Muscovites, who for some time began to meet in the dark white figure that gave off an unusual blue light.

There is nothing surprising in the fact that soon shimmering in the dark Ghost was given the appropriate name, and this whole story has acquired all sorts of gossip. However, it is known that for a Luminous monk constantly followed by a crowd of onlookers, as the Muscovites learned quickly that the Ghost is harmless.

"Ghost" was actually harmless, it is even often stayed and talked to passers-by, imploring them not to mistake it for something supernatural, because, they say, it's the same from Moscow, like all these people.

People, of course, did not believe "the Ghost", although Glowing monk, in fact, had with the spirit world any relation.

It was just a Soviet scientist Semyon Isaakovich, Volfkovich, doctor of chemical Sciences, which at that time was engaged in the study of the electrothermal process of sublimation of phosphorus with the aim of development of the technology of production of the respective mineral fertilizers.

But here's the hitch: all these experiments with phosphorus, Volfkovich conducted in an electric furnace, which isolated pairs of this glowing in the dark matter (as we now all know), soaking their clothes scientist.

There is a well-established version of why scientist are not protected from these vapors. First, he did not know about the dangers of phosphorus on the human body, which we know each student (by the way, the scientist has lived for 84 years and never complained about his health, maybe he knew about the phosphorus much more of our school notions about this element?), and secondly, he apparently was funny in such a harmless way to entertain the simple-minded inhabitants of Moscow (after all, he could not fail to notice the first time that his clothing glows in the dark).

Whatever it was, but great people, too, not without a sense of humor, moreover, they often have a large stock of it and, most importantly, the ability to joke and say that these jokes are then transmitted from generation to generation as stories. It is to this anecdotal case and include the case with the Glowing monk, who played a talented Soviet chemist Semyon Isaakovich, Volfkovich...

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