Veniamin Levich
Veniamin Grigorievich (Benjamin) Levich (Russian: Вениами́н Григо́рьевич Ле́вич; 30 March 1917 in Kharkiv, Ukraine – 19 January 1987 in Englewood, New Jersey, United States)[1] was a Soviet dissident,[2] internationally prominent physical chemist, electrochemist and founder of the discipline of physico-chemical hydrodynamics. He was a student of the theoretical physicist, Lev Landau. His landmark textbook titled Physicochemical Hydrodynamics is widely considered his most important contribution to science.[3] The Levich equation describing a current at a rotating disk electrode is named after him. His research activities also included gas-phase collision reactions, electrochemistry, and the quantum mechanics of electron transfer.
Veniamin Grigorievich (Benjamin) Levich | |
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| Вениамин Григорьевич Левич | |
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| Born | 30 March 1917 |
| Died | 19 January 1987 (aged 69) Englewood, New Jersey, United States |
| Education | Sc.D., Physics and Mathematics |
| Alma mater | University of Kharkiv |
| Known for | Landau–Levich problem Levich equation |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | physical chemistry |
Levich received many honors during his life, including the Olin Palladium Award of The Electrochemical Society in 1973. He was elected a foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences in 1977 and a foreign associate of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 1982.[4] He was also a member of numerous scientific organizations, although on leaving the USSR in 1978 he had to relinquish his Soviet citizenship and, therefore, was expelled from the USSR Academy of Sciences.[1] An interdisciplinary institute at the City College of New York is named in his honor.[5] His son Eugene V. (Yevgeny) Levich also became a physicist, leaving the Soviet Union in 1975 and raising support for other family members.[6]
See also
References
- Ennis, Thomas W. (21 January 1987). "Dr. Benjamin G. Levich dies; scientist and Soviet emigre". The New York Times.
- De Boer, S. P.; Driessen, Evert; Verhaar, Hendrik (1982). "Levič, Veniamin G.". Biographical dictionary of dissidents in the Soviet Union: 1956–1975. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. 319. ISBN 9024725380.
- Levich, Veniamin G. (1962). Physicochemical Hydrodynamics. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall (english translation by Scripta Tchnica). ISBN 9780136744405. OCLC 567847240.
- Acrivos, Andreas (1992). "Benjamin Levich", Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering, Volume 5. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press. pp. 164–169. ISBN 978-0-309-04689-3.
- "Benjamin Levich Institute for Physico-Chemical Hydrodynamics". City College of New York (CCNY). Retrieved 20 April 2012.
- Christopher S. Wren (18 July 1978). "Soviet Jews in Israel voice 'Concern over Kin Left Behind'". New York Times. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
Further reading
- De Boer, S. P.; Driessen, Evert; Verhaar, Hendrik (1982). "Levič, Veniamin G.". Biographical dictionary of dissidents in the Soviet Union: 1956–1975. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. 319. ISBN 9024725380.