Yevgeny Evgenyevich Nikitin

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Evgeni Evgenjewitsch Nikitin ( Russian Евгений Евгеньевич Никитин , English Evgeny E. Nikitin ; born May 9, 1933 in Saratov ) is a Russian theoretical chemist and professor emeritus of the Technion in Haifa .

Life

Nikitin studied physics at Saratov University from 1950 to 1955 . He then moved to the Institute for Chemical Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow , where he received his doctorate in 1965. From 1965 to 1991 he was a professor at the Institute of Chemical Physics and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology . In 1992 he went to the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, where he was a professor until his retirement in 2002. Since 2002 he has been visiting professor at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen .

His field of work is the theoretical description of chemical elementary reactions using methods of quantum mechanics , especially using various quantum mechanical approximation methods. His investigations into electronically non-adiabatic effects in the dynamics and kinetics of chemical reactions, i.e. effects that cannot be described in the context of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation , became particularly well known . Nikitin published more than 300 scientific papers in journals as well as several specialist books, some of which were only published in Russian.

He has received numerous awards and honors. In 1977 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . Since 2012 he has been a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1987 he became a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science .

Fonts (selection)

  • EE Niktin: Nonadiabatic transitions between fine-structure components of alkali atoms upon collision with inert-gas atoms . In: Journal of Chemical Physics . tape 43 , 1965, p. 744 ff ., doi : 10.1063 / 1.1696800 .
  • EE Nikitin: Theory of Elementary Atomic and Molecular Processes in Gases . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1974, pp. 472 .
  • EE Nikitin, L. Zülicke : Selected Topics of the Theory of Chemical Elementary Processes . Ed .: G. Berthier u. a. (=  Lecture Notes in Chemistry . Volume 8 ). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 1978, ISBN 978-3-540-08768-7 .
  • EE Nikitin, S. Ya. Umanskii: Theory of Slow Atomic Collisions . Ed .: VI Goldanskii u. a. (=  Springer Series in Chemical Physics . Volume 30 ). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Tokyo 1984, ISBN 978-3-642-82047-2 .
  • EE Nikitin, L. Zülicke: Theory of elementary chemical processes . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1985, ISBN 978-3-528-06869-1 , pp. 236 .
  • EE Niktin: Nonadiabatic transitions: What we learned from old masters and how much we owe them . In: Annual Review of Physical Chemistry . tape 50 , no. 1 , 1999, p. 1–21 , doi : 10.1146 / annurev.physchem.50.1.1 .
  • EE Niktin, J. Troe : 70 years of Landau-Teller theory for collisional energy transfer. Semiclassical three-dimensional generalizations of the classical collinear model . In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics . tape 10 , no. 11 , 2008, p. 1483-1501 .

literature

Web links

  • EE Nikitin at the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry at Technion
  • EE Niktin at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member entry by Evgueni E. Nikitin at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 5, 2018.
  2. ↑ List of members: Evgeny E. Nikitin. Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, accessed on April 5, 2018 .
  3. ^ Members: Evgueni E. Nikitin. International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, accessed April 5, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Nikitin, Evgeny Evgenyevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nikitin, Evgeny E. (English)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian theoretical chemist
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Saratov