Tatjana Maximowna Birschtein

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Tatjana Maximowna Birschtein ( Russian Татьяна Максимовна Бирштейн ; born December 20, 1928 in Leningrad ) is a Soviet - Russian physicist and university professor .

Life

Birschtein's father was the Jewish doctor Max (Morduch) Mironowitsch Birschtein (1885-1949), who came from Brest-Litovsk and had studied at the University of Dorpat . Her mother Marija Israilewna nee Babina (1897–1987) from Mogiljow was a pulmonologist . After the start of the German-Soviet War , Birschtein was evacuated to a village in Novgorod Oblast with a school run by a relative according to an old evacuation plan from the Finnish War . As the front approached, her aunt brought her back so that she came back shortly before the beginning of the Leningrad blockade and so stayed in the blocked Leningrad. Her father was drafted and worked in a Leningrad hospital . Her mother was a department head at a tuberculosis institute in the city center near her home. The water supply collapsed, the sewerage system stopped working, and the food rations became smaller and smaller. She then lived with her mother in her father's room in the hospital and helped there. She graduated from school with a gold medal.

Birschtein studied from 1946 at the University of Leningrad (LGU) with a degree in 1951. Your teachers were Viktor Nikolajewitsch Zwetkow and Vladimir Ivanovich Krylow . Because of her Jewish origins, she could not work as a scientist at the university and was sent as an engineer to factories in the Leningrad area where she was not needed. Back in Leningrad, she worked in a design office for three years. Only after the death of Stalin could 1954 postgraduate at the Leningrad State hearts Institute for Education (LGPI) at Mikhail Volkenshtein compete, which she completed in the 1958th

In 1958 Birschtein began to work at the Institute for High Molecular Weight Compounds of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AN-SSSR, since 1991 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN)) at Wolkenstein. In the 1970s Wolkenstein went to Pushchino in order in the molecular biology and - physics to work. Birschtein also had a call to Pushchino, but because of her family she stayed in Leningrad. In 1986 Birschtein became a senior researcher at the Institute for High Molecular Weight Compounds of the AN-SSSR. In 1991 she was appointed professor of the chair for molecular biophysics at the physical faculty of the University of St. Petersburg (SPbGU).

Birschtein's research area was the statistical physics of polymer systems. The focus was on phase transitions , adsorption , polymer and polyelectrolyte systems, self-organizing block copolymers , liquid crystal structures in polymer systems and polymer brushes .

Birschtein was married to the physicist Dawid Naumowitsch Mirlin (1925-2008). Her children are the physicist Alexander Dawidowitsch Mirlin (* 1962) and the programmer Jelena Dawidowna Mirlina.

Honors, prizes

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Электронный архив людей: Татьяна Максимовна Бирштейн (accessed February 12, 2020).
  2. ↑ a b c d Татьяна Максимовна Бирштейн: Не только о блокаде (accessed February 12, 2020).
  3. ↑ Department of Molecular Biophysics and Polymer Physics, St. Petersburg State University, Physical faculty: Birshtein Tatiana M. (accessed February 12, 2020).
  4. ↑ Five outstanding women scientists receive L'ORÉAL-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science 2007 (accessed February 12, 2020).
personal data
SURNAME Birschtein, Tatjana Maximowna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Бирштейн, Татьяна Максимовна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet-Russian physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad