LEVICH 220 



S. Khaikin. Laureate of the Gold Medal of Popov. Radio, 

 1952, #6. 

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Academy of Sciences 

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LEVICH, VENIAMIN GRIGOR'EVICH (Physical Chemist and 

 Theoretical Physicist) 



V. G. Levich was born March 30, 1917. He graduated in 

 1937 from Kharkov University. In 1940-1958 he worked at the 

 Institute of Physical Chemistry at the U.S.S.R. Academy of 

 Sciences. He taught in 1940-1949 at Moscow State Pedagogical 

 Institute. He was made Departmental Chairman of the Moscow 

 Engineering- Physical Institute in 1950, and in 1951 professor. 

 In 1958, Levich became Chairman of the Theoretical Depart- 

 ment of the Institute of Electrochemistry of the U.S.S.R. Acade- 

 my of Sciences. Since 1958 he has been a Corresponding Mem- 

 ber of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. 



The works of Levich deal with the investigation of physico- 

 chemical processes and are mainly concerned with problems of 

 physico-chemical hydrodynamics. He formulated a theory of 

 mass transfer to the phase contacting area, a theory of concen- 

 trated polarization with the passing of a current through so- 

 lutions, a theory of the influence of surface -active substances 

 on the movement of a liquid, a theory of a non-equilibrium 

 double layer, coagulation of aerosols and colloids in turbulent 

 flows, and other questions on the theory of mutual influence of 

 physico-chemical processes and the movement of a medium. 

 Bibliography: 



Physico-Chemical Hydrodynamics. Moscow: 1952. 



Statistical Physics. Moscow: 1950. 



and B. M. Grafov. Effect of rectification on an ideally 



polarized electrode. Doklady Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 146 , #6, 



1372-73 (1962). 

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