Viktor Ivanovich Spitsyn, an Outstanding Scientist and Pedagogue

摘要

An outstanding chemist, Hero of Scoalist Labor, Academician Viktor Ivanovich Spitsyn headed the chair of inorganic chemistry at the Department of Chemistry of the Moscow State University for more than 40 years (from 1943 to 1988). From 1949, the worked simultaneously at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the USSR Academy of Sciences, thus combining science and teaching. This combination was not formal in V.I.Spitsyn's work. Indeed, his scientific interests were largely dictated by the necessity of solving a number of problems in inorganic chemistry. These problems emerge especially clearly if inorganic chemistry is considered as being amalgamated into a single whole by the D.I.Mendeleev Periodic Law. Vikotr Ivanovich was an expert in D.I.Mendeleev's works and the Periodic Law (PL).