Ioffe Institute
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The Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is one of Russia's largest research centers specialized in physics and technology. The institute was established in 1918 in Petrograd and run for several decades by Abram Ioffe. The institute is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The entrance plaque, preserved from the Soviet times
Buildings belonging to the Ioffe Institute; this photo was shot from the Academician Ioffe square
Nikolay Semyonov
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Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov , sometimes Semenov, Semionov or Semenoff was a Soviet physicist and chemist. Semyonov was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the mechanism of chemical transformation.
Semyonov (right) and Kapitsa, portrait by Boris Kustodiev, 1921.
Semyonov on a 2021 stamp of Russia