Boris Belousov (chemist)
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Boris Pavlovich Belousov was a Soviet chemist and biophysicist who discovered the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction in the early 1950s. His work initiated the field of modern nonlinear chemical dynamics.
Boris Pavlovich Belousov in the 1930s
Chemical oscillator
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In chemistry, a chemical oscillator is a complex mixture of reacting chemical compounds in which the concentration of one or more components exhibits periodic changes. They are a class of reactions th
Boris Belousov (chemist)
…USSR, where he worked in toxicology. It was while seeking an inorganic analog of the biochemical citric acid cycle that Belousov chanced to discover an oscillating chemical reaction. He tried twice over a period of six years to publish his findings, but the incredulous editors of the journals to which he submitted his articles…
A stirred BZ reaction mixture showing changes in color over time