Boris Ieremiyevich Werkin

Boris Ieremijewitsch Werkin ( Russian Борис Иеремиевич Ве́ркин ; born August 8, 1919 in Charkow ; † June 12, 1990 ibid) was a Soviet low-temperature physicist .

Life

Werkin graduated from Kharkov University in 1940. He then worked at the Kharkov Physics and Technology Institute of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine until 1960 . During the German-Soviet War he was a soldier, was deployed to Stalingrad and the Caucasus and was wounded. In 1951 he was promoted to a candidate for science and in 1957 a doctorate in physical and mathematical sciences .

In 1960 Werkin initiated together with AA Halkin , BN Eselsohn and IM Dmitrenko the establishment of the Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Technology of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kharkov, of which he became director (and which now bears his name). He created a school of low temperature physicists and was always its head. In 1988 he retired and was appointed honorary director.

Werkin's field of work was low temperature physics including its applications. This included in particular the electronic properties of metals , superconductivity , the behavior of materials at low temperatures and in space , cryonics in medicine and biology , low-temperature liquids and magnetism . Werkin developed methods of tunnel spectroscopy (1967–1975) and sector field mass spectrometry . He demonstrated the crystallizability of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid .

Honors

Order of the Great Patriotic War 1st class
Order of Lenin
Order of the October Revolution
Order of the Red Banner
Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union
State Prize of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) (1973)
State Prize of the USSR (1978)
Honorary diploma of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^{b work by} Boris Ieremijewitsch (Russian, accessed on May 11, 2016).
↑ JA Chramow: Work in Boris Ieremijewitsch . In: AI Achijeser : Physics: Biographical Lexicon . Nauka, Moscow 1983, p. 60 (Russian).
↑ BI Werkin, as we remember him . Naukowa Dumka, Kiev 2007, ISBN 978-966-00-620-1 (Russian).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d CRYO means COLD, an article about academician Boris Ieremievich Verkin (accessed on May 11, 2016).

personal data
SURNAME	Werkin, Boris Ieremijewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Веркин, Борис Иеремиевич (Russian); Verkin, Boris Ierimievich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Soviet low temperature physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 8, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kharkov
DATE OF DEATH	June 12, 1990
Place of death	Kharkov

[wer-1] {b work by} Boris Ieremijewitsch (Russian, accessed on May 11, 2016).

[2] JA Chramow: Work in Boris Ieremijewitsch . In: AI Achijeser : Physics: Biographical Lexicon . Nauka, Moscow 1983, p. 60 (Russian).

[3] BI Werkin, as we remember him . Naukowa Dumka, Kiev 2007, ISBN 978-966-00-620-1 (Russian).

[cry-4] CRYO means COLD, an article about academician Boris Ieremievich Verkin (accessed on May 11, 2016).