Touches to the Portrait of Academician G.A. Abakumov

Abstract

Reminiscences of A.V. Gushchin about academician G.A. Abakumov, Director of the G.A. Razuvaev Institute of organometallic chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences; a laureate of the USSR State prize, who prepared more than 600 scientific articles and more than 20 patents, trained more than 30 doctors and candidates of sciences; a member of the editorial Board of the “Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences. Series Chemistry” and “High energy Chemistry”, a member of the Bureau of the Department of chemistry and material sciences of the RAS and the Bureau of the Scientific Council of the RAS on organic and organometallic chemistry. G.A. Abakumov's pedagogical talent is evident in the example of the general course of lectures “Chemical bases of life” for the chemical faculty students of UNN, which contains fascinating information about the mechanisms of stagewise cleavage of the inert hydrocarbon radical of stearic acid, the causes of high rates of enzymatic reactions in mild conditions. The principles of the scholarship commission activity of the Nizhni Novgorod Razuvaev scholarship, where G.A. Abakumov presided for many years, are listed. The impressions of G.A. Abakumov's work are described, in his positions as Deputy Chairman of the dissertation Council on chemical sciences in the field of organic chemistry, chemistry of organoelement compounds and high-molecular compounds in the joint Council for doctoral and candidate dissertations at Lobachevsky University and G.A. Razuvaev Institute of organometallic chemistry of the RAS. The connections of G.A. Abakumov's scientific school with the school of his teacher academician G.A. Razuvaev is shown. G.A. Razuvaev was the first director of the laboratory of polymer stabilization of the USSR Academy of Sciences, the Institute of chemistry of the USSR Academy of Sciences, the Institute of organometallic chemistry. The scientific achievements of those doctors of sciences, with whom G.A. Abakumov actively cooperated or led in the last few years, are briefly considered.