Editorial 1 - Professor Gennady Efremovich Zaikov: Sixty Years in Science

摘要

January 7, 2015 will be the 80th birthday of Professor G. E. Zaikov and more than 60 years of his scientific activity. Zaikov was born in Omsk, Siberia (USSR) where he graduated from their primary, middle, and high school. He also graduated from a musical professional school where he studied violin and pianoforte. However, his parents Efrem and Matrena decided that it might be better for their son to continue his education by following in the footsteps of his mother - a chemistry teacher in High School and Omsk's Medical Institute (his father was a mathematician and land-surveyor). Therefore, in 1952 Gennady moved to Moscow where he entered the Moscow State University (MSU), and he graduated with a chemistry degree in December 1957. His bachelor's degree dealt with the problem of separating Li6 and Li7 isotopes. After this he joined the Institute of Chemical Physics (ICP) in Moscow in February 1958. In 1996 this Institute was split into two parts: N. N. Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics (ICP) and N. M. Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics. At the present time Prof. G. E. Zaikov is working at the N. M. Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics (IBP). So, G.E. Zaikov never changed place of his job.