VDOVENKO 408 



VDQVENKQ, VIKTOR MIHAILQVICH (Chemist) 



V. M. Vdovenko was born January 5, 1907. He graduated 

 from the Kiev Chemico-Technological Institute of Food Industry 

 in 1930 and worked from then until 1935 at the Institute of 

 Chemical Physics of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. In 1935 

 he began teaching at Leningrad University and in 1953 was made 

 professor. He joined the staff of the Radium Institute of the 

 U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences and in 1953 became the Director. 

 Vdovenko has been a member of the Communist Party of the 

 Soviet Union since 1929. In 1953 he was elected a Correspond- 

 ing Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. 



The work of Vdovenko is in radiochemistry, inorganic and 

 physical chemistry. He studied the behavior of ions in complex 

 systems such as solutions containing gelatin, or solid electro- 

 lytes, the action of atomic hydrogen on inorganic compounds, 

 chemical protection against war gases, and the adsorption of 

 radium on glass as a function of the pH and radium ion concen- 

 tration. Vdovenko investigated the distribution of radioactive 

 elements between two immiscible solvents, which could make 

 possible the utilization of an extraction method for separating 

 and purifying these elements. He also investigated the sys- 

 tems: radioactive element-water-organic solvent, determined 

 the solubility and forms of state of some radioelements in non- 

 aqueous solutions, established the connection between the 

 structure of organic solvents and their extractability. 

 Bibliography: 



and S. A. Shchukarev . Mechanism of the movement of 

 chloride and hydrogen ions in the presence of gelatin. Zhur. 

 Fiz. Khim., 1934, 5, #4. 



Investigating the action of atomic hydrogen on inorganic 

 compounds. Works of the Anniversary Scientific Session. 

 Leningrad State University. Section on Chemical Sciences. 

 Leningrad: 1946, 112-122. 



Adsorption of ions and the potential discontinuity at the 

 border of a solid electrolyte-solution. Scientific Papers of the 

 Leningrad University, 1936, #11. Series on Chemical Sci- 

 ences, #2, 48-102. 



and B. A. Nikitin. Adsorption of radium on glass. Works 

 of the State Radium Institute, 1937, 3., 256-65. 

 Extraction methods of separating elements. Zhur. Anal. 

 Khim., 1957, 12, #5, 593-599. 



Extraction as a method of separating and studying radio- 

 active element. Zhur. Neorg. Khim., 1958, 3, #1, 145-54. 



