Mendeleev readings
Encyclopedia
Mendeleev readings — a solemn act, the annual reports of leading Soviet/Russian scholars on topics affecting all areas of chemistry
and its related sciences: physics
, biology
and biochemistry
. Date of readings is due to two dates: birthday of Dmitri Mendeleev
(8 February 1834), and sending messages to them on the opening Periodic Law (March 1869).
The right to participate in the readings is determined only criterion—only an outstanding contribution to science reader, is also an indispensable academic degree
— Doctor
, so the choice of narrator titles, awards and administrative positions have traditionally not been considered and are not indicated.
Mendeleev reading had read the presidents and vice presidents of the USSR Academy of Sciences (after 1991 — Russian Academy of Sciences
(RAS)), Active and corresponding member
s of the Academy. Minister
, Nobel laureates
, professors.
Mendeleev readings is always performed at the Leningrad State University, now—in the Saint Petersburg State University
, a large chemical audience Department of Chemistry St. Petersburg State University (in the yard the main university building—on the sland Vasilevsky Island of St.Petersburg); currently reading held at the lecture Mendelian Center—University Embankment, 7 / 9, Vasilevsky Island, St. Petersburg,
Chemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
and its related sciences: physics
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
, biology
Biology
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...
and biochemistry
Biochemistry
Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes in living organisms, including, but not limited to, living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes...
. Date of readings is due to two dates: birthday of Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev , was a Russian chemist and inventor. He is credited as being the creator of the first version of the periodic table of elements...
(8 February 1834), and sending messages to them on the opening Periodic Law (March 1869).
- Established by decision of the Board Russian Physical-Chemical Society (founded: Chemical part — 1 January 1868; Physical — May 1872: merged in 1876) and the Academic Board Leningrad State University — 20 January 1940.
- Held annually since 1941.
- The tradition was interrupted by the Great Patriotic War.
- Annual commemoration Mendeleev readings resumed in 1947 in the Leningrad branch of WMOs with LSU—in the 40th anniversary of the death of Mendeleev.
- In 1953, because of mourning for StalinJoseph StalinJoseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...
, reading is not performed. - In 1968 for Jubilee of the opening of Periodic Law—three readings: one—in March, and two—in October.
The right to participate in the readings is determined only criterion—only an outstanding contribution to science reader, is also an indispensable academic degree
Academic degree
An academic degree is a position and title within a college or university that is usually awarded in recognition of the recipient having either satisfactorily completed a prescribed course of study or having conducted a scholarly endeavour deemed worthy of his or her admission to the degree...
— Doctor
Doctor (title)
Doctor, as a title, originates from the Latin word of the same spelling and meaning. The word is originally an agentive noun of the Latin verb docēre . It has been used as an honored academic title for over a millennium in Europe, where it dates back to the rise of the university. This use spread...
, so the choice of narrator titles, awards and administrative positions have traditionally not been considered and are not indicated.
Mendeleev reading had read the presidents and vice presidents of the USSR Academy of Sciences (after 1991 — Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences consists of the national academy of Russia and a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation as well as auxiliary scientific and social units like libraries, publishers and hospitals....
(RAS)), Active and corresponding member
Academician
The title Academician denotes a Full Member of an art, literary, or scientific academy.In many countries, it is an honorary title. There also exists a lower-rank title, variously translated Corresponding Member or Associate Member, .-Eastern Europe and China:"Academician" may also be a functional...
s of the Academy. Minister
Minister (government)
A minister is a politician who holds significant public office in a national or regional government. Senior ministers are members of the cabinet....
, Nobel laureates
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
, professors.
Mendeleev readings is always performed at the Leningrad State University, now—in the Saint Petersburg State University
Saint Petersburg State University
Saint Petersburg State University is a Russian federal state-owned higher education institution based in Saint Petersburg and one of the oldest and largest universities in Russia....
, a large chemical audience Department of Chemistry St. Petersburg State University (in the yard the main university building—on the sland Vasilevsky Island of St.Petersburg); currently reading held at the lecture Mendelian Center—University Embankment, 7 / 9, Vasilevsky Island, St. Petersburg,
Mendeleev readers
- I. — Vitaly Khlopin — 17 March 1941 — «The transformation of elements and the periodic law»
- II. — Alexander Terenin — 21 February 1947 — «The splitting of the molecules under the influence of light»
- III. — Alexander Poraj-Kosice — 28 February 1948 — «On the theory of dyeing»
- IV. — Ivan Zhukov — 17 February 1949. — «The electrical properties of disperse systems»
- V. — Alexander NesmeyanovAlexander NesmeyanovAlexander Nikolayevich Nesmeyanov was a prominent Soviet chemist and academician specializing in organometallic chemistry...
— 13 April 1950 — «Conjugation of simple connections» - VI. — Aleksandr ArbuzovAleksandr ArbuzovAleksandr Erminingeldovich Arbuzov was a Russian/Soviet chemist who discovered the Michaelis–Arbuzov reaction.A native of Bilyarsk, Arbuzov studied in the Kazan University under Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev. He graduated in 1900 and became professor at the same university in 1911...
— 22 February 1951 — «Organic derivatives of phosphorus acids» - VII. — Mikhail Dubinin — 7 February 1952 — «The adsorption of gases and vapours and the structure of adsorbents»
- VIII. — Sergey Shchukarev — 11 February 1954 — «Mendeleev's Theory about the forms of chemical compounds in the light of modern science»
- IX. — Aleksandr Vinogradov — 24 February 1955 — «Isotopes of lead»
- X. — Joseph Evseyevich Stark — 9 February 1956 — «Status of trace elements in liquid and solid phases»
- XI. — Ilya Chernyaev — 7 February 1957. — «Individual chemical elements and complexing»
- XII. — Nikolai Semenov — 27 February 1958 — «On some chain reactions»
- XIII. — Stepan Danilov — 12 February 1959 — «The Origin of simultaneous oxidation-reduction of organic substances»
- XIV. — Boris Nikolsky — 11 February 1960 — «The value of the theory of ion exchange for the development of the theory of solutions»
- XV. — Alexander Grinberg — 9 February 1961 — «Studies on the chemistry of complex compounds»
- XVI. — Valentin Kargin — 15 February 1962 — «The emergence of structures in polymers»
- XVII. — Grigory Razuvaev — 14 February 1963 — «Homological decomposition reaction of organometallic compounds»
- XVIII. — Victor Kondratiev — 13 February 1964 — «A new stage in the development of the kinetics of gas reactions»
- XIX. — Alexander Brodsky — 11 February 1965 — «Study of the mechanism of reactions involving peroxides»
- XX. — Alexander Frumkin — 5 May 1966 — «On potentials, which perceived electrodes in solutions of foreign ions»
- XXI. — Konstantin Mishchenko — 16 February 1967 — «Mendeleyev's Conception of solutions—the basis of modern theory»
- XXII. — Semen Volfkovich — 4 March 1968 — «Ways of use of agricultural chemicals»
- XXIII. — Vladimir Shpak — 16 October 1968 — «The Role of Ideas Mendeleev and RFHO-WMOs them. Mendeleev in the development of domestic industry «
- XXIV. — Georgy FlyorovGeorgy FlyorovGeorgy Nikolayevich Flyorov was a prominent Soviet nuclear physicist.-Biography:Flyorov was born in Rostov-on-Don and attended the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute Georgy Nikolayevich Flyorov (March 2, 1913 – November 19, 1990) was a prominent Soviet nuclear physicist.-Biography:Flyorov was born...
— 16 October 1968 — «New elements of the periodic table, prospects and problems of chemical search of superheavy elements» - XXV. — Vladimir FockVladimir FockVladimir Aleksandrovich Fock was a Soviet physicist, who did foundational work on quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics....
— 20 April 1969 — «Can fit the chemical properties of atoms in a purely spatial representations?» - XXVI. — Anatoly Petrov — 19 February 1970 — «General regularities in the reactions of conjugated systems»
- XXVII. — Vladimir Engelhardt — 18 March 1971 — «Ways and objective knowledge of chemistry in life»
- XXVIII. — Jacob Sirkin — 3 March 1972 — «non-rigid molecules»
- XXIX. — Nikolai Javoronkov — 5 March 1973—DI «Mendeleev—the herald of STR»
- XXX. — Nikolai KochetkovNikolai KochetkovNikolay Konstantinovich Kochetkov was a Soviet chemist and academician ....
— 21 March 1974 — «Development of synthesis of carbohydrate chemistry» - XXXI. — Sergey Frisch — 20 March 1975 — «Spectroscopy of atomic and molecular compounds»
- XXXII. — Yuri Ovchinnikov — 25 March 1976 — «Advances in the study of protein structure»
- XXXIII. — Alexei Storonkin — 24 March 1977 — «Questions of thermodynamics of heterogeneous systems»
- XXXIV. — Boris Arbuzov — 16 February 1978 — «Reactions of cycloaddition by aliphatic and aromatic acyl-izotsianits»
- XXXV. — Leonid Kostandov — 16 February 1979 — «Chemical Science and Industry»
- XXXVI. — Konstantin Yatsymyrsky — 29 March 1980 — «Biological Aspects of Inorganic Chemistry»
- XXXVII. — Nikolai Enikolopov — 12 March 1981 — «Chemical transformations of organic compounds in the solid phase during plastic flow»
- XXXVIII. — Anatoly AlexandrovAnatoly Petrovich AlexandrovAnatoly Petrovich Alexandrov was a Russian physicist, director of the Kurchatov Institute, academician and the President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences...
— 4 February 1982 — «Problems of power at the turn of XX—XXI centuries» - XXXIX. — Mikhail ShultzMikhail ShultzMikhail Mikhaylovich Shultz , was a Soviet/Russian physical chemist, artist. Proceedings of the thermodynamic theory, the thermodynamics of heterogeneous systems, the theory of glasses, chemistry and electrochemistry of glass, membrane electrochemistry, the theory of ion exchange and phase...
— 24 March 1983 — «Chemistry of oxide glasses and their electrode properties» - XL. — Viktor Spitsyn — 5 April 1984 — «New laws in the ratios of chemical elements in the periodic Mendeleyev»
- XLI. — Oleg Reutov — 11 April 1985 — «Some aspects of organometallic chemistry of non-transition metals»
- XLII. — Yakov Kolotyrkin — 11 February 1986 — «Corrosion of Metals
- XLIII. — Vladimir Koptyug — 12 February 1987 — «Problems of systematising chemical knowledge»
- XLIV. — Vitaly Gol'danskii — 25 March 1988 — «Quantum kinetics of low-temperature chemical reactions»
- XLV. — Viktor Kabanov — 25 March 1989 — «Statistical mikromrolekuly in living systems»
- XLVI. — Mark Volpin — 1 March 1990 — «New ways of activation of saturated hydrocarbons»
- XLVII. — Nikolai Zefirov — 28 March 1991 — «The use of computers as artificial intelligence in organic chemistry»
- XLVIII. — Yuri Molin — 19 March 1992 — «Magnetic effects and spin coherence in the radial reactions»
- XLIX. — Zhores Alferov — 19 February 1993 — «Semiconductor heterostructures»
- L. — Yuri Buslaev — 10 March 1994 — «Inorganic Materials Today»
- LI. — Alexander Shilov — 16 March 1995 — «Biomimetic catalysis»
- LII. — Vladimir Skulachev — 14 March 1996 — «Oxygen in living systems: good and evil»
- LIII. — Georgy Samsonov — 6 March 1997 — «Chromatographic bioseparatsiya and biopolymer systems»
- LIV. — Ilya Moiseev — 19 March 1998 — «Activation of hydrogen peroxide metal complexes: molecular path»
- LV. — Anatoly Rusanov — 18 March 1999 — «Wonderful World of Micelles»
- LVI. — Anatoly Buchachenko — 2 March 2000 — «Chemistry at the Turn of the Century: New Horizons»
- LVII. — Irina BeletskayaIrina BeletskayaIrina Beletskaya is a professor of chemistry at Moscow State University, where she serves as head of the Organoelement Chemistry laboratory. She specialises in organometallic chemistry and its application to problems in organic chemistry...
— 1 February 2001 — «Organometallic chemistry: Past and Future» - LVIII. — Vladimir Boldyrev — 21 March 2002 — «Reactivity of solids. Problems and Prospects «
- LIX. — Boris Trofimov — 27 March 2003 — «Superbasic catalysts and reagents: concept, applications and perspectives»
- LX. — Renad Sagdeev — 12 February 2004 — «Magnetic phenomena in chemistry, biology and medicine»
- LXI. — Yuri Oganesyan — 17 March 2005 — «Superheavy Elements»
- LXII. — Vladimir Minkin — 16 March 2006 — «Polyfunctional materials for molecular electronics»
- LXIII. — Yuri Zolotov — 22 March 2007 — «Analytical Chemistry: the day today»
- LXIV. — Oleg Chupakhin — 20 March 2008 — «Nucleophilic aromatic substitution of hydrogen—an efficient synthetic methodology»
- LXV. — Vladimir Fortov — 12 March 2009 — «Extreme states of matter».
- LXVI. — Alexei Khokhlov — 18 February 2010 — «Smart Polymers».
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