Pavel Fedorovich Pohil (1904-1973) - physicochemist, one of the founders of the Soviet scientific school of combustion and explosion, laureate of the Stalin Prize (1949).
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Biography
Born on October 4, 1904 in the village of Golovkovka, Chigirinsky district .
He graduated from the Cherkasy Vocational School (1926) and the Faculty of Chemical Technology of the Institute of Sugar Industry, Smely, Kiev Region (1930).
Since 1930, he worked at the Institute of Chemical Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Leningrad. In 1935 he defended his thesis on "Kinetics of the formation and solvation of two-dimensional colloids."
In July 1941 he joined the people's militia, but after a few months at the call of N. N. Semenov, he was recalled to Kazan (where the institute was evacuated). Under the guidance of M. A. Sadovsky, he worked on studies of the mechanical action of the explosion. In 1943, the institute returned from evacuation, but not to Leningrad, but to Moscow.
Since 1946 he worked in the Special Sector of the IHF (atomic project). After the first Soviet nuclear explosion (08/29/1949), together with M. A. Sadovsky and P. L. Dekabrun, he measured the air shock wave.
“For participation in the development of the latest devices and methods for measuring an atomic explosion” in October 1949, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor and the Stalin Prize of the II degree by secret government decrees in a group of developers and testers of the first Soviet nuclear bomb.
Later, he studied the mechanism of combustion of gunpowder, heading the corresponding laboratory. In 1954-1973 Head of the Department of Combustion of Condensed Systems (GCS) and at the same time head of the laboratory.
In 1954 he defended his doctoral dissertation (technical sciences). By a decision of the Higher Attestation Commission of the USSR from 1967, he was approved as a professor in the specialty of chemical physics. Co-author of the monograph "Methods of investigation of combustion and detonation processes."
Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the RSFSR (1968). He was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor , medals.
He died on January 4, 1973 after a serious long illness. He was buried at Vostryakovsky cemetery .
Proceedings
Pohil P.F., Maltsev V.M., Zaitsev V.M. Research Methods of Combustion and Detonation Processes / USSR Academy of Sciences. Order of Lenin Institute of Chemistry physics. - Moscow: Nauka, 1969 .-- 301 p. : ill .; 22 cm
Sources
- Sulimov A. A., Shmelev V. M. In memory of P. F. Pohil // Combustion and explosion. - 2017, T. 10, No. 2. - S. 114-118.
- Gromova (Pohil) G.P. Memoirs of the Father // Burning and Explosion. - 2017, T. 10, No. 2. - S. 118-120.
- http://www.biblioatom.ru/founders/pokhil_pavel_fedorovich/