Background
Birshtein, Tatiana Maximovna was born on December 20, 1928 in Leningrad, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Daughter of Max M. Birshtein and Maria I. Babin.
Birshtein, Tatiana Maximovna was born on December 20, 1928 in Leningrad, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Daughter of Max M. Birshtein and Maria I. Babin.
Graduate, Leningrad University, Russia, 1951. Postgraduate, Pedagogical Institute, Leningrad, 1958. Doctor of Philosophy, Institute Macromol.
Compounds, Russian Academy Sciences, Leningrad, 1960. D in Physico-Mathematical Sciences (honorary), Institute Macromol. Compounds, Russian Academy Sciences, Leningrad, 1974.
Birshtein specialised in the physics of polymers. In 2007 she was given the L"Oréal-United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Award for Women in Science. Birshtein was born in Saint St. Petersburg in 1928.
Birshtein specialised in the theoretical physics of polymers in Street St. Petersburg at the Institute of Macromolecular Compounds of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
This institution had been created as part of Professor Mikhail Volkenshtein"s 1950s Leningrad school of polymer science. The institution was synonymous with Birshtein and she is said to have dedicated her life to science.
The award was for her "contribution to the understanding of the shapes, sizes and motions of large molecules.".
Russian Academy of Sciences.
Married David N. Mirlin, May 2, 1952. Children: Helene Mirlina, Alexander Mirlin.