Background
Volkenstein, Mikhail Vladimirovich was born on October 23, 1912 in St. Petersburg, Russia, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Son of Vladimir Mikhailovich and Maria Mikhailovna (Feitelson) Volkenstein.
Volkenstein, Mikhail Vladimirovich was born on October 23, 1912 in St. Petersburg, Russia, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Son of Vladimir Mikhailovich and Maria Mikhailovna (Feitelson) Volkenstein.
Student, University Moscow, 1935. Candidate of science, Karpov's Institute Physical Chemistry, Moscow, 1937. Doctor of Science, Karpov's Institute Physical Chemistry, Moscow, 1942.
D. (honorary), Autonomous University Madrid, 1988.
Laboratory senior science coworker Karpov's Institute Physical Chemistry, Moscow, 1933-1941. Professor, senior science coworker State Optical Institute, Leningrad, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1942-1948. Chief of laboratory Institute High-Molecule Compounds, Academy of Sciences Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1948-1967, Institute Molecular Biology, Academy of Sciences Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, Moscow, since 1967.
Chief o flab. Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, Pushtshino, since 1967. Professor Leningrad State University, 1945-1951, 61-66, Moscow Physico-Technology Institute, Moscow, since 1967.
Author: Vibrations of Molecules, 1949 (State prize 1950), Configurational Statistics of Polymeric Chains, 1959, Molecular Biophysics, 1975, Biophysics, 1978, Biophysics, 1979, 88, 92.
Member Democratic Club Moscow Intellectuals Moscow Tribune.
Painting, literature.
Married Stella Iosiphovna Alenikova, 1947. Children: Vladimir, Maria.