2026-10-08 ncip.by (National Center of Intellectual Property, Republic of Belarus)

Found through Google: "Lakhovsky" 1941 OR 1942 "New York" hospital "oscillator" trial "French Hospital" OR Brooklyn OR "Presner". Page saved by script: research/pages/ncip-lakhovsky.html. URL [web]: https://ncip.by/en/o-centre/novosti/interesting/belarusians-contributing-to-the-world-science-and-technology-development-georgy-lakhovsky/ (news item, 17 Sept 2020, "From the database of the Republican Library for Science and Technology").

Nature of source: a state patent office's popular biography, unsigned; its sources are not given and it repeats some common online claims. Useful for dates and places that can be checked in records.

Points [web]

• Born 17 Sept 1869, village of Ilya, Vileika district, Minsk province (now Belarus), to a family of teachers; school in Minsk; Odessa School of Arts and Crafts at 18; Sorbonne from Dec 1894 (physics, bridges and roads, anatomy and physiology at the Faculty of Medicine).
• Railway accident led to his rail-fastening inventions (matches the 1902-1913 patents on Google Patents).
• From 1914 served on French missions; met Marconi and d'Arsonval.
• 1923 "cellular radioemitter", "for which patents were issued by the French and German patent offices" (the German patent is not yet found; French candidate FR 601155, 1924).
• 1924-25 multi-electrode radio tubes for aircraft; six patents on loudspeakers.
• 1931 multi-wavelength generator; "founded the Colysa company, which manufactured and sold his devices".
• 1934: presented at the "I International Congress of Radiobiology in Venice".
• Books against racism: "Racism", "Civilization and Racist Madness" (cf. "Civilization and the Racial Folly" cited in the 1941 book); emigrated to the USA in 1941 for anti-fascist views.
• "in New York he was hit by a limousine, and three days later, on August 31, 1942, at the Adelphi Hospital in Brooklyn, the scientist dies."
• "In January 1945, the George Lakhovsky Institute of Multiple Waves was founded in New York."
• Several New York hospitals tested the device; "results ... quite impressive" (no hospital named).

Bearing (no verdicts)

• Priority 4 (historical record, absence of evidence): gives three checkable records: the Adelphi Hospital, Brooklyn, death of 31 Aug 1942 (NYC death certificate; Brooklyn Daily Eagle / New York Times obituary); the 1945 New York institute (New York State corporation records); the 1934 Venice radiobiology congress proceedings.
• Claim 4: the New York hospital trial (1941 book's table) is mentioned without names; the institute of 1945 and the assignment of US 2,351,055 to Henry S. Blum of Chicago (1944) are the American continuation to trace.