A Celebration of Inorganic Lives: Interview with Ilya I. Moiseev

摘要

Ilya I. Moiseev is a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Gubkin State University of Oil and Gas (Moscow) and Head of Metal-complex Catalysis Laboratory at the N.S. Kur-nakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). He was born to a Jewish family in Moscow in 1929. His father Josef (Iosif) Moiseev was a worker at the oldest Moscow automobile plant AMO (now Likhachev Plant). His mother Doba Turovskaya was a teacher at a nursery school. In 1947, Ilya Moiseev joined the M.V. Lomonosov Institute of Fine Chemical Technology (Moscow), where he studied chemistry (and, in particular, acetylene hydration reaction catalyzed by mercury salts) with Professor Rafail Flid. In 1952, Moiseev was graduated as engineer specialized in chemistry and technology of heavy organic synthesis. After graduation he was obliged (by contract) to serve as an engineer at a State Institution for Designing of Chemical Enterprises for 3 years (1952-1955) but was allowed to continue his study with Professor Flid at the M.V. Lomonosov Institute in his free time and without salary.