Boris Yakovlevich Libman (1922–2008) - Soviet chemical engineer, laureate of the Lenin Prize (1960).
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| Date of Birth | December 25, 1922 |
| Place of Birth | Riga |
| Date of death | June 25, 2008 (85 years) |
| Place of death | Philadelphia |
| Occupation | chemical engineer |
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Biography
Born in Riga. Soon after the accession of Latvia to the USSR, he was drafted into the Red Army in the Latvian division. Fired for health reasons.
He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology. DI Mendeleev (1949).
From 1949 he worked in Stalingrad at the plant for the production of toxic substances (Volgograd Chemical Plant). Since 1958, the chief engineer.
Winner of the Lenin Prize in 1960 - for the organization of the development and development of industrial production of organophosphorus agents Sarin .
In the spring of 1964, during a flood, toxic substances got into the Volga, which caused a massive seizure of fish. The main defendant was Liebman. He was sentenced to 2 years ITL with paying a large fine (money collected by employees of the Institute). He served a one-year sentence (he worked first as a foreman at a construction site, then in a scientific laboratory) and was released.
Again, he was engaged in research in Volgograd (deputy director for scientific part of the Volgograd branch of GSNIIOKhT), then he worked in Moscow in GosNIIKhlorproject.
In 1972, he was sent to Novocherkassk to the OV plant Participated in the creation of "Novice" .
In 1999 he emigrated to the USA , lived in Philadelphia.
He died in 2008.
Awards
- Order of the Patriotic War, I degree (1985).
Sources
- Cassidy's Run: The Secret Spy War Over Nerve Gas. Posted by: David Wise
- Boris Libman: The Terrible Life of a Soviet Hero
- War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda by Jonathan Tucker
- Sturgeon hoard