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Roshchevskii, Mikhail P. Corresponding member of the Physiology Department of
the Russian Academy of Sciences and of the Urals Department since 1987;
academician in 1993. He became Chairman of the Komi Scientific Center in
February 1984. He was named a Deputy Chairman of the Urals Department in
August 1988.
Sadovskii, Mikhail A., D. Tech. S. Born in 1904 in St. Petersburg. Russian
physicist. Corresponding member, 1953, and academician, 1966. Since 1970,
academician of the Physical Chemistry and Technology of Inorganic Materials
Department, and since 1970, an academician of the Urals Department of the RAS.
He graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute in 1930. From 1932 to
1941, he worked at the Institute of Seismology of the Academy and from 1941 to
1944, in the special projects section of the Presidium of the Academy. He was
Deputy Director of the Institute of Chemical Physics from 1946 to 1963. From
1963 to August 1988, he was Director of the O. Iurii Shmidt Earth Physics Institute
that was established in 1956 and that is the leading center for the study of
earthquakes and other seismic phenomena. It is subordinate to the Academy's
Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Department. He was originally elected to
the Earth Sciences Department. In 1985, he was awarded the Lomonosov Medal for
his work in geophysics and geology. His works are in the problems of the theory
of explosions, the study of the destructive action of explosions, and the seismic
effects of large-scale explosions. He substantiated the law of similarity for
explosions. He participated in large-scale, directional blasting in Russia and is one
of the founders of the science of the physics of explosions. He received the State
Prize in 1948, 1949, 1951, and 1953; and the Lenin Prize in 1962. In 1986, he received
the M. V. Lomonosov Gold Medal for his contributions to Russian Science.
(GSE 22, p. 544.)
Shveykin, Gennadii P., D. Tech S. Born in 1926 in the city of Karabash, Cheliabinsk
(chelyabinsk) Oblast. Russian chemist. Corresponding member, 1976, and academician,
1987. He is also a member of the Urals Department. He graduated from
the S. M. Kirov Urals Polytechnical Institute in 1951 and joined the staff of the
Institute of Chemistry of the Urals branch (now Department) of the Russian
Academy of Sciences. Since 1972, he has been Director of the Chemistry Institute
in Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk). The Institute of Chemistry, established in 1958, does
research in high temperature synthesis of pure refractory combinations and polymer
chemistry. His work deals with the chemistry of refractory metals and their
compounds. (GSE 29, p. 649.)
Tolstikov, Genrikh A., D. Chem S. Born in 1933. Academician of the General and
Technical Chemistry Department of the AN SSSR from 1987, and first Deputy
Chairman of the Urals Department since 1988. Since 1977, he has been Director of
the Chemistry Institute in Ufa. Established in 1960, it studies the methods of
processing sulfur crudes into fuels. He has served as Chairman of the Bashkir
Affiliate since 1984. (See above.)
Vatolin, Nikolai A., D. Tech. S. Born in 1926. Academician of the Physical Chemistry
and Technology of Inorganic Materials Department and of the Urals Department
since 1981. Since 1967, he has been Director of the Metallurgy Institute at
Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk) that is subordinate to the academy's Urals Department.
The institute develops physical-chemical fundamentals for new metallurgical
processes. From 1980 to 1988, he served as Deputy Chairman of the Urals
Department.
Vonsovskii, Sergei V., D. PM. S. Born in August 1910 in Tashkent. Russian
physicist. He has been a corresponding member of the academy since 1953 and an
academician since 1966--of the General Physics and Astronomy Department. He
was originally elected to General and Applied Physics Department. He graduated
from Leningrad State University in 1932 and from 1932 to 1939 he worked at the
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