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Personnel of the Top Three SRIs of the
Physical Chemistry and Technology of
Inorganic Materials Department, 1960-1980
No. of Persons
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A. A. Baikov Metallurgy N. S. Kurnakov General
Institute, Moscow & Inorg. Chem. Inst.,
Moscow
I. V. Grebenshchikov
Silicate Chemistry
Institute, Leningrad
Compiled from: CR 80-13202, pp. 243-244; 283-286; and 394-395.
Academicians--age and schools: The average age of the academicians of the Physical
Chemistry and Technology of Inorganic Materials Department of the Russian
Academy of Sciences was almost 75 years in 1991. This average was skewed
considerably by the fact that nine of the 24 academicians whose birth dates were
known were over 80 years old. Only one academician's date of birth was not
known at the time of this analysis. The oldest member was 89 and the youngest
was 59. When the octogenarians and septuagenarians are removed from the
analysis--assuming they hold those positions out of respect for the elderly more
than for their active contributions to scientific research or to scientific research
management--the average age drops to 63. Only nine academicians falin this
category. Seventeen of the 25 academicians graduated from 13 known institutions;
only 8, though degree holders, graduated from institutions not known at this time.
Moscow State University graduated three; Leningrad State University and the
Leningrad Polytechnic graduated one each; the D. I. Mendeleev Chemical
Engineering Institute in Moscow, two; the N. E. Bauman Moscow Higher
Technical School, two, and the Moscow Academy of Mines, the University of
Gorkiy, the Kirov Institute of Chemical Engineering, the University of Kiev, the
Kiev Industry Institute, the University of Kazan', the S. M. Kirov Urals
Polytechnic Institute, and the Kiev Polytechnic Institute--each graduated one
student. Again, considering the age of the older academicians in this department,
the choice and opportunity for advanced graduate work was relatively limited for
many of them.
Corresponding Members--age and schools: The birth dates of 29 of the 37
corresponding members of the department are known and their average age is 70.8
years. Fifteen of these were born before the Russian Revolution, and of that group
of 15 the average age was almost 81 years. The group born after the revolution
averaged about 60 years in age. Although 24 of the 37 corresponding members of
the department held degrees, only 11 institutions are known to have graduated 16 of
these. Institutions from which these 16 graduated included: Moscow State
University, two; D. I. Mendeleev Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering, two;
the M. I. Kalinin Moscow Institute of Nonferrous Metals and Gold, two; the
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