Theremin, the instrument, uses the player’s hand proximity to a pair of antennas to generate electronic sound. As a young student, Theremin was an aspiring physicist. World War One saw him ...

One hundred years ago, a young Russian physicist named Lev Sergeyevich Termen, better known as Leon Theremin, was trying to invent a device to measure the density of various gases. In addition to ...

It was invented by Russian Professor Leon Theremin in the 1920s. Four Young Post junior reporters spoke to the grand-daughter of Theremin's cousin, Lydia Kavina. Kavina started playing the ...