Wladislaw Wladislavowitsch Vojewodski

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Memorial plaque for Wladislaw Wladislawowitsch Wojewodski at the NXKG

Vladislav Vladislavovich Wojewodski ( Russian Владислав Владиславович Воеводский ; born July 25 . Jul / 7 August  1917 greg. In Petrograd ; † 20th February 1967 in Novosibirsk ) was a Soviet chemist and university lecturer .

Life

Wojewodski's father Wladislaw Stefanowitsch Wojewodski was a lecturer at the Institute of Finance. He was arrested during the Stalin Purge in 1937 and shot on January 27, 1938. Vojewodski's mother Berta Aronovna Vojewodskaja was a trained lawyer . When his father was arrested, Voevodsky became the son of a class enemy , which severely hindered his further path.

After all, Voevodsky graduated from high school in 1935 and began studying at the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute in the engineering faculty . Attempts to remove him from college were unsuccessful because his outstanding performance made him one of the few with a Stalinist special scholarship. He completed his diploma thesis at NN Semjonow The role of hydrogen peroxide in the redox reaction of hydrogen and graduated in 1940 with honors.

Wojewodski now wanted to enter a tank school and then go to the front, but as a class enemy son, he was banned from military service in the German-Soviet war . He then applied unsuccessfully as an aspirant to Moscow universities. So he was finally accepted as an aspirant by NN Semjonov's Institute of Chemical Physics, which was evacuated to Kazan in 1941 . In 1944 he received his doctorate with his dissertation Detailed Investigation of the Mechanism of the Redox Reaction in the Combustion of Hydrogen as a candidate in the chemical sciences . With NN Semenov's Institute, Voevodsky was able to return to Moscow.

In 1946, Wojewodski became a lecturer at the Chair of Chemical Kinetics at Lomonosov University in Moscow . While investigating branched chain reactions , he clarified the diffusive and catalytic processes involved in redox reactions. In terms of practical applications, he developed a theory of cracking of paraffin - hydrocarbons . In 1949, together with AB Nalbandjan, he published the monograph Mechanism of Hydrogen Oxidation and Combustion , which was awarded the Mendeleev Prize in 1952 . In 1952 he was again a victim of Stalinist repression like many other chemists, when he was dismissed as a recognized bourgeois in connection with the resonance theory of Linus Pauling .

Due to its great importance for science and industry, Voevodsky was soon reinstated during the thaw after Khrushchev came to power . In 1953 he became dean of the Faculty of Molecular Physics and Technical Physics of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology . In 1954, he was with his dissertation Free radicals in the gas chain reactions for Doctor of Chemical Sciences PhD. In 1958 he applied electron spin resonance . In the same year he became a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AN-SSSR) . He carried out his investigations in the Institute for Chemical Kinetics and Combustion (NXKG) of the Siberian Department of the AN-SSSR in the Academgorodok of Novosibirsk , of which he was one of the founders. He also founded the chair for physical chemistry , molecular physics and biophysics at the University of Novosibirsk (NGU). Because of the importance of his research, he was able to take part in the Burns Symposium in Oxford and in the discussion on the stabilization of free radicals in Sheffield . In 1961 he became Scientific Director of the NXKG and Dean of the Natural Science Faculty of the NGU. In 1963 he became a candidate of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and in 1964 a full member of the AN-SSSR. His most famous students include JN Molin and RS Sagdejew .

In 1967 Voevodsky died of heart failure and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery. In 1968 he was awarded the State Prize of the USSR . In his honor, the international symposium on the physics and chemistry of elementary chemical processes is held alternately every five years in Moscow and Novosibirsk . His name is a street in the Akademgorodok, an international science award, a prize for young scientists from the Siberian Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a scholarship for students from the NGU.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article Wojewodski Wladislaw Wladislawowitsch in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)http: //vorlage_gse.test/1%3D005923~2a%3DWojewodski%20Wladislaw%20Wladislawowitsch~2b%3DWojewodski%20Wladislaw%20Wladislawowitsch
  2. ^ Wojewodski Wladislaw Wladislawowitsch (Russian, accessed August 12, 2016).
  3. ↑ В. В. Воеводский, А. Б. Налбандян: Механизм окисления и горения водорода . Moscow 1949.
  4. ↑ a b c Academician VV Voevodsky (accessed August 12, 2016).
  5. ↑ Фотоархив СО РАН: Воеводский Владислав Владиславович (accessed on August 12, 2016).
  6. ↑ Russian Academy of Sciences: Воеводский Владислав Владиславович (accessed on August 12, 2016).
  7. ↑ La Science en Sibérie (accessed August 12, 2016).
personal data
SURNAME Voivodsky, Wladislaw Wladislawowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Воеводский, Владислав Владиславович (Russian); Voyevodski, Vladislav Vladislavovich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian physical chemist
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Petrograd
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1967
Place of death Novosibirsk