David Moiseevich Ziv (1915-1967) - Soviet radiochemist, twice laureate of the Stalin Prize (1951, 1953), laureate of the Lenin Prize (1966).
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Biography
Born on April 4, 1915 in Petrograd in the family of the dentist Movshi (Moisha) Ioselevich Ziv.
Since 1931, after graduating from high school, he worked as a preparation agent at the All-Union Aluminum-Magnesium Institute. In 1932 he entered the Leningrad State University at the Faculty of Chemistry (diploma with honors, 1937).
From 1938 to 1967 - at the Radium Institute: graduate student, junior researcher, senior researcher, since 1954 the head. the laboratory. In 1941-1942 served in the Red Army.
Doctor of chemical sciences, professor.
He proposed highly sensitive methods for determining trace amounts of rare elements. Developed a method for isolating polonium. One of the founders of a new field of radiochemistry is electro-radiochemistry, which studies the electrochemical properties of radioactive elements in a state of extreme dilution.
Twice laureate of the Stalin Prize (1951, 1953), laureate of the Lenin Prize (1966). He was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor , medals.
He died on February 16, 1967.
Son - Ziv, Mikhail Davidovich .
Sources
- http://elib.biblioatom.ru/text/radievy-institut-imeni-hlopina_1997/go,318/
- Radiochemistry, Volume 9. Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1967 (Obituary)
- DAVID MOISEEVICH ZIV (ON THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF BIRTH) RADIOCHEMISTRY Volume: 57 Number: 2 Year: 2015