Yuri Semenovich Lazurkin

Yuri Semenovich Lazurkin
Born	1916 USSR
Died	August 5, 2009
Nationality	Russia
Known for	founder of DNA physics
Scientific career
Fields	Polymer physics, DNA physics
Institutions	Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute I. V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy Russian Academy of Sciences
Doctoral advisor	Anatolii Petrovich Aleksandrov
Doctoral students	Edward Trifonov

Yuri Semenovich Lazurkin was a Russian physicist and a founder of a new discipline DNA physics.

Lazurkin started his career in a novel field polymer physics. During World War II, he was in the Navy and worked on demagnetizing of ships.

After the war, he returned to polymer physics. One of the phenomenons that his laboratory studied and greatly contributed to its understanding, was DNA melting.

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