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Name; Institute of Chemical Physics 
(Institut khimicheskoy fiziki--IKhF AN SSSR) 
Address: Moscow, Vorob'yevskoye shosse, 2-a 
Director: N. N. Semenov, Academician (U.S.S.R.) (1960) 
Deputy Director: <- 
Administrative Affiliation: Academy of Sciences, U.S.S.R. (1962) 
Selected Staff Members: 
A. A. Berlin 
L. A. Blyumenfel’d, Professor, Head of Laboratory 
N. Ya. Buben 
N. M. Emanuel’, Corresponding Academician (U.S.S.R.), Head of a 
Laboratory 
Ye. L. Frankevich 
D. A. Frank-Kamenetskiy, Professor 
V. I. Gol’danskiy, Professor 
V. B. Kazanskiy 
Yu. B. Khariton, Academician (U.S.S.R.) 
V. N. Kondrat'yev, Academician (U.S.S.R.) 
Ze K. Mayzus, Doctor 
A. Ya. Nalbandyan, Doctor 
M. B. Neyman, Doctor 
S. Z. Roginskiy, Corresponding Academician (U.S.S.R.) 
M. A. Sadovskiy, Corresponding Academician (U.S.S.R.) 
A. Ye. Shilov, Doctor 
V. L. Tal'rose, Doctor 
V. V. Voyevodskiy, Corresponding Academician (U.S.S.R.) 
Ya. B. Zel'dovich, Academician (U.S.S.R.) 
Description: 
Organized by N. N. Semenov in 1931 and since directed by him, the 
Institute of Chemical Physics is one of the important chemical institutes in 
the Soviet Union and has an impressive staff. Their research extends into 
many divergent areas of organic, thermal, physical, and biophysical chemistry. 
The Institute is expanding and in 1958, a new laboratory for the theoretical 
study of block and graft polymer products was set up. Polyformaldehyde 
plastic was developed here, and other studies have pertained to magnetic 
resonance of ferrocene compounds, polymers with conjugated bonds, polymers 
irradiated at 77 K, and the mechanical degradation of polymers. To meet the 
need for research in the new field of biophysical chemistry, a special 
seminar was started at this institute. 
Semenov and his co-workers have a great number of publications on 
the theory of chain reactions, the oxidation of hydrocarbons, theories of 
burning, flames, and combustion, and the chemistry of free radicals. 
