Background
RAPOPORT, Iosif was born in 1912 in Saint St. Petersburg (now Leningrad).
RAPOPORT, Iosif was born in 1912 in Saint St. Petersburg (now Leningrad).
Leningrad University.
Assistant, at Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy, of Sciences Institute of Experimental Biology 1938-1941. Red Army 1941-1945; research assistant, at Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy, of Sciences Institute of Cytology 1945-1948. Palaeontologist with geological prospecting office of Ministry of Oil Industry 1948-1957.
Researcher at Institute of Chemical Physics 1957-1965, Head of Department since 1965, Professor since 1971.
Correspondent.
Of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy, of Sciences since 1979.