Background
SEMENOV, Nikolay was born in 1896 in St. Petersburg.
Physicist and physical chemist
SEMENOV, Nikolay was born in 1896 in St. Petersburg.
1917 graduated Petrograd University.
Full member since 1932, and Academy Secretary since 1957,Department of Chemical Science, USSR Academy of Science. Director, Institute of Chemical Physics, USSR Academy of Science, since 1931. Director, Laboratory of Anisotropic Structures, USSR Academy of Science, since 1958.
Professor, Moscow University, since 1944. Candidate member of the Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, since 1961. 1929-1932 corresponding member, USSR Academy of Science.
S.1958 foreign member, London Royal Society. Chairman, All-Union Society for the Dissemination of Political and Science Knowledge. Helped organize Physico-Mathematical Faculty at Leningrad Polytechn.
Institute and helped launch several science journals. Editor, “Sobranie izbrannykh trudov Ya. I. Frenkel” (Collection of Selected Works of Ya.
I. Frenkel); 1960 delegation at 6th lnternat. Pugwash Conference of World Scientists. Basic works concern: molecular physics and electronic phenomena of vapor condensation on solid surfaces.
Ionization of salt vapors under the action of electronic impulses. Theory of the spark-over of insulators. Studied flame expansion and detonation and combustion of explosives.
Worked on chain reactions.
Since religion offers a complete set of answers to the problems of purpose, morality, origins, or science, it discourages exploration of those areas by suppressing curiosity, denies its followers a broader perspective, and prevents social, moral and scientific progress.
Member, Communist Party, since 1947.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Member, Communist Party, since 1947.