A.N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry

A. N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia... 

Institute of Physical Chemistry, the A. N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences). In 1965 the first issue of Elektrokhimiya (the Russian journal of elecRochemistry) was published. In 1952 the first monograph on elecRochemical kinetics written by Frumkin and co-workers was published in Moscow. 

I sincerely hope that what has inspired me during a long lifetime, of more than 50 years of research and teaching at the Moscow Quant Power Sources Institute and at the A.N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, will continue to inspire current and future specialists and people in general who work to improve our lives and solve our problems. 

Acknowledgments I am grateful to Professor F. Scholz for valuable remarks and suggestions during the preparation of the manuscript to E. I. Khrushcheva, the director of the Memorial Frumkin Museum at the Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry RAS for the opportunity to familiarize myself with the manuscript A. N.Frumkin. Students and Associates and to use some photographs. I am also grateful to T.Ya. Safonova who translated the first draft of the present paper and made it possible to use various materials from the archive of Academician Ya. M. Kolotyrkin. 

Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry by A.N. Frumkin of Russian Academy of Science, Leninsky prospect, 31, 119991 Moscow, Russia e-mail etb mail.ru... 

Photo 4.11 A.N. Frumkin—the Director of the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the USSR... 

It was in the early 1970s when A. N. Frumkin visited the Institute of Physical Chemistry, BAS, in Sofia. The day before his arrival, Kaischev came into my Lab and said to me Listen, I will arrive with Prof. Frumkin tomorrow, and you can tell him everything that you are doing here. But be careful how you say it, because... 

In 1918, together with Lev Yakovlevich Karpov (1879-1921), Bakh had founded the Central Chemical Laboratory of the Supreme Council of the National Economy in Moscow. He became the first Director of this laboratory and, after Karpov s untimely death in 1921, it was renamed the L. Ya. Karpov Physicochemical Institute. For many years, this was the largest (and only) center for physical chemistry in the USSR. Despite the chaotic circumstances of its birth, it soon developed into one of the world s leading scientific centers, making important contributions to various fields of physical chemistry (electrochemistry and corrosion, theory of catalysis, chemistry of polymers, etc.). Famous scientists who worked in the Institute included A. N. Frumkin, Ya. K. Syrkin, N. M. Zhavoronkov, V. A. Kargin, I. V. Petryanov-Sokolov, S. S. Medvedev, K. A. Kocheshkov, Ya. M. Kolotyrkin, Kh. S. Bagdasar yan, G. K. Boreskov, and M. I. Temkin. 

Arvydas Survila (1942) He was a disciple of the A. N.Frumkin electrochemistry school in Moscow. He is currently a chief research associate in the Department of Electrochemical Materials Science in the Institute of Chemistry of the Center for Physical Sciences and Technology in Vilnius. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1964 and had his postgraduate studies under the supervision of Prof. A. N. Frumkin andB. B. Damaskin and the scientific degree of doctor of science in 1967 and habilitated doctor of science in 1985 at Moscow State University. He has been a professor since 1992 and head of the Department of Kinetics at the Institute of Chemistry from 1993 to 2007. A. Survila was awarded a Prize in Science of Lithuania in 1993. He had internships in the electrochemistry in the universities in the USA, Germany, and Poland. 

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