Aleksandr Frumkin

Aleksandr Naumowicz Frumkin (Russian: Александр Наумович Фрумкин, born October 24, 1895 in Chisinau, died May 27, 1976 in Tule) - Soviet electrochemist, Hero of Socialist Work (1965). Curriculum vitae

He was born into a family of an insurance agent of Jewish origin. In 1912 he graduated from the gymnasium of Saint. Paweł in Odessa, and in 1915 the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Novorossiysk University, he worked as a lab technician in Odessa. In the years 1920-1922 he was a professor at the University of Odessa, from 1922 a research worker, and from 1924 to 1925 the head of the faculty of the Institute of Physics and Chemistry. Karpowa in Moscow, later in 1930-1976 professor at the Moscow State University (MGU), where he headed the laboratory of technical electrochemistry at the Department of Physical Chemistry. In the years 1933-1976 he headed the electrochemical department of MGU, 1939-1949 he was the director of the Institute of Physical Chemistry and the Institute of Electrochemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, March 29, 1932 he became a student at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. During the war with Germany, he worked in a university evacuated to Kazan, in 1942 he participated in the work of the Jewish Antifascist Committee, in 1944 he became a member of its presidium, in 1963 he became the deputy chairman of the General Chemistry and Technical Department of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1956 he became a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He was also a member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (1956), Bulgaria (1958), the Netherlands (1965), the USA (1969), India (1965) and Hungary (1967). He was buried at the Nowodziewicz Cemetery. He is the author of works on electrochemical processes, surface phenomena, the influence of electric field on adsorption and diffusion phenomena and catalysis in heterogeneous systems. Honors and awards

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