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Doctors, and 1,482 Candidates. Student enrollment was 23,650. Laboratory 
and other training facilities at MGU have been described by numerous visitors 
as the finest and most up to date in the Soviet Union. Students are selected 
on the basis of competitive examination. The majority of scientific and 
technical graduates take up careers in research. Thus, the curricula are 
highly slanted toward research training. 
The University carries on numerous research projects in the physical 
sciences. In chemistry, research interests focus on petrochemicals, polymer 
chemistry, ferrites, radiation chemistry, electrolytes, catalysts and cataly- 
sis, and semiconductor materials. Materials which have been under study 
range from alloys, such as palladium-copper-chromium, cobalt-manganese, 
chromium-cobalt, and iron-cobalt-palladium, to substances such as hydrogen 
peroxide, polycarbonates, liquid ozone, rare-earth elements, carbon black, 
and proteins. Projects include studies on adsorption, analytical methods, 
structure of solutions, welding fluxes, organic-sulfur compounds in petroleum 
products, and chemical processes at low temperatures. The Thermochemical 
Laboratory imeni V. F. Lieginin has studied the enthalpy of formation of 
compounds such as aluminum fluoride, lithium fluoride, boron tetrachloride, 
boron nitride, and lithium oxide. The Laboratory of Catalysis and Gas Elec- 
trochemistry has investigated ozone and ozonizers. In January, 1959, the 
Interdivisional Special Research Laboratory of High-Molecular Compounds was 
established under V. A. Kargin. One of its early study programs concerned 
monocrystals of high-molecular compounds. 
Physies research at MGU touches on all areas of modern physics, for 
example, high-energy physics, nuclear physics, quantum theory, solid-state 
physics, relativity, plasma physics, radiophysics, cosmic radiation, electron 
beams, scattering theory, crystallography, magnetism, nuclear magnetic re- 
sonance, elementary particles, acoustics and ultrasonics, cryogenics, lumin- 
escence, and optics. Recent research projects included study of water adsorp- 
tion on the surface of silica gel, filtration of radio signals from noise, 
magnetogasdynamics, sound-absorbing materials, recombination centers, surface 
effects, and low-temperature properties of semiconductors, pinch effect of 
gas discharge, reflex klystrons and travelling-wave tubes, super-conducting 
films as computer memory elements, etching of metals by ion bombardment, and 
Cherenkov radiation and theory of electron acceleration. Important facili- 
ties associated with the University are the Institute of Nuclear Physics and 
the Astronomical Institute imeni P. K. Shternberg. 
In the biosciences, workers have investigated plant-growth factors, 
genetics, radiation effects on animal cells, tissue, and nerves, micro- 
organisms, edible fungi, plant diseases, and photosynthetic bacteria. The 
biochemistry group has concentrated on problems such as oxidative phosphoryla- 
tion, biochemical changes from cardiac diseases, and blood anticoagulants. 
Facilities associated with the Faculty of Biology and Soil Science are the 
Soil-Secience Institute, a climatology station, biological stations at 
Zvenigorod and on the White Sea, botanical gardens, an agrobiological station 
in Chashnikov, and museums of anthropology and zoology. 
