1039 (Continued) 
D. S. Mgeladze, Docent, Head of Chair 
Ya. P. Moseshvili, Professor, Head of Chair 
N. I. Muskhelishvili, Academician (U.S.S.R.) 
M. Z. Nodiya, Professor, Head of Chair 
A. D. Petrov, Corresponding Academician (U.S.S.R.) 
A. M. Razmadze, Professor 
A. G. Shanidze, Corresponding Academician (U.S.S.R.) 
G. V. Tsereteli, Corresponding Academician (U.S.S.R.) 
D. N. Uznadze, Professor 
A. K. Vacheyshvili, Professor, Head of Chair 
I. Kh. Vekua, Professor 
M. D. Zhorzhikashvili, Party Secretary 
Description: 
Toilisi State University was founded in 1918. Today it is the 
fourth largest university in the Soviet Union, having had an enrollment 
during the 1960-1961 school year of about 8,900 students. The University 
confers Candidate's and Doctor's Degrees. It publishes a Trudy, a Sbornik 
Nauchnykh Rabot Studentov and a Sbornik Nauchnykh Trudov Aspirantov. 
One of the more important fields of research activity at the 
University is petroleum chemistry. Among the projects that have been 
performed in this field are studies of thermal cracking, purification of 
lubricating oils, ignition of ethane-chlorine mixtures, and production of 
ethyl acetate and ethylene. Im analytical chemistry, investigators have 
studied chromatographic methods of qualitative analysis and electroanalysis 
of complex ores. 
Considerable effort has been expended in the study of metal physics, 
particularly dislocations in metals and calculation of configuration entropy 
and heat capacity of ternary alloys. Studies have been performed on properties 
of semiconductors and semiconductor theory. 
Mathematics studies include problems such as summation methods for 
double series, duality theorems, boundary-value problems, and nonlinear 
equations. The University has a computer center. Currently, the philology 
group at the University is engaged in the study of the problem of machine 
translation. Research in mechanics includes problems in fluid flow and 
elasticity. 
In 1961, a Nuclear-Research Laboratory was established at the 
University. This laboratory, together with the University's Accelerator 
Laboratory which has a 15-Mev betatron, will allow physics researchers to 
pursue their activities in the study of photonuclear reactions, resonance 
scattering of gamma quanta and neutrons, electron scattering, paramagnetic 
resonance, and Cherenkov radiation. Other interests of the physics group 
include equipment and techniques for observing charged particles in cloud 
chambers, magnetohydrodynamics, semiconductor theory, cybernetics, and use 
of balloon observations for meteorology. Among the studies in the University's 
Cryogenics Laboratory have been investigations of surface conductivity at 
low temperatures and superfluidity in liquid helium. 
