David A. Frank-Kamenetskii
| David A. Frank-Kamenetskii | |
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David A. Frank-Kamenetskii, mid 1930s
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| Born |
3 August 1910 Vilna, Russia, (Now Vilnius, Lithuania) |
| Died | 2 June 1970 (aged 59) Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Fields | Physics, Chemistry |
| Alma mater | Tomsk Technological Institute |
| Doctoral advisor | Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov |
| Known for |
Thermal explosion theory Plasma physics Astrophysics |
| Notable awards | Triple USSR State Prize laureate, Mendeleev Prize (1949), Lenin Order, Order of the Working Red Labour |
| Spouse |
Klavdia A. Frank-Kamenetskii née Kopytova (1932–1935) Elena E. Fridman |
David Albertovich Frank-Kamenetskii (Russian: Давид Альбертович Франк-Каменецкий, August 3, 1910, Vilna, Russia - June 2, 1970, Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Soviet theoretical physicist and chemist, professor and doctor of physical, chemical and mathemetical sciences. He developed the thermal explosion theory, worked on plasma physics problems and in astrophysics.
David A. Frank-Kamenetskii was born on 1910, August 3 in Vilna (Russia; now Vilnius, Lithuania) in a Jewish family. His parents were Albert G. Frank-Kamenetskii (1873–1935) and Anna A. Frank-Kamenetskii (née Hannah A. Arons; 1883–1948). In 1917-1918 the family left Vilna, spent one year near Moscow and finally resided in Irkutsk (Eastern Siberia), where Albert G. Frank-Kamenetskii became the chair of the Chemistry Department in the newly organized Irkutsk State University. In 1931 Frank-Kamenetskii graduated from the Siberian Technological Institute (now Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia) in Metallurgy Engineering.
In 1932 he married Klavdia A. Kopytova and in the same year their daughter Tema was born. From 1931 to 1934 Frank-Kamenetskii worked as a mining engineer in the Chita gold mines in Eastern Siberia and he was also teaching in a Chita engineering college.
In 1934 Frank-Kamenetskii wrote a letter to Professor Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg, Russia) about chemical thermodynamics. Impressed by the letter, Professor Semenov invited Frank-Kamenetskii to join the Institute of Chemical Physics as a graduate student. The Institute of Chemical Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences was organized by Professor Semenov in 1931 in Leningrad. From 1934 to 1941 Frank Kamenetskii lived in Leningrad and worked in the Institute of Chemical Physics. Here he met [Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich]], who became a close friend, and a fruitful collaboration began. He published several chemical papers in the topics of chain reactions, combustion theory and periodic chemical reactions.
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