Anatoly Zhabotinsky

Anatol M. Zhabotinsky
Anatol M. Zhabotinsky at the American Chemical Society Meeting in New Orleans in 1999
Born	(1938-01-17)January 17, 1938 Moscow, Soviet Union
Died	September 16, 2008(2008-09-16) (aged 70) Boston
Institutions	Moscow State University, Brandeis University
Doctoral advisor	Simon Shnoll
Known for	Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction

Anatol Markovich Zhabotinsky (Анато́лий Ма́ркович Жаботи́нский) (January 17, 1938 – September 16, 2008) was a Soviet biophysicist who created a theory of the chemical clock known as Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction in the 1960s and published a comprehensive body of experimental data on chemical wave propagation and pattern formation in nonuniform media. The reaction had been discovered by Boris Pavlovich Belousov in the early 1950s. From 1991 until his death, Zhabotinsky was an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA.