Editing Pyotr Lebedev (section)

{{Short description|Russian physicist (1866–1912)}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name              = Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev
| image             = Lebedev petr nikolaevich.jpg
| caption           =
| birth_date        = {{Birth date|1866|2|24|df=y}}
| birth_place       = [[Moscow]], [[Russian Empire]]
| nationality       = [[Russians|Russian]]
| death_date        = {{Death date and age|1912|3|1|1866|2|24|df=y}}
| death_place       = Moscow, Russian Empire
| field             = [[Physicist]]
| work_institution  = [[Moscow State University]]
| alma_mater        = [[University of Strasbourg]]
| doctoral_advisor  = [[August Kundt]]
| doctoral_students = [[P. P. Lazarev]]
| known_for         = Demonstration of [[radiation pressure]]
| prizes            = 
| footnotes         =  
}}
'''Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev''' ({{Langx|ru|Пётр Никола́евич Ле́бедев}}; 24 February 1866 – 1 March 1912) was a Russian physicist. His name was also [[transliteration|transliterated]] as Peter Lebedew<ref name=Lebedew1901/> and Peter Lebedev.<ref>
{{cite book
 |editor-last=Stavrou |editor-first=T. G.
 |year=1969
 |title=Russia Under the Last Tsar
 |url=https://archive.org/details/russiaunderlastt00stav |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/russiaunderlastt00stav/page/170 170]
 |publisher=[[University of Minnesota Press]]
 |isbn=978-0816605149
}}</ref> Lebedev was the creator of the first scientific school in [[Russian Empire|Russia]].