Anatol Markovich Zhabotinsky (Анато́лий Ма́ркович Жаботи́нский) (January 17, 1938 – September 16, 2008) was a Soviet

biophysicist Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that applies approaches and methods traditionally used in physics to study Biology, biological phenomena. Biophysics covers all scales of biological organization, from Molecule, molecular to organismic ...

who created a theory of the

chemical clock A chemical clock (or clock reaction) is a complex mixture of reacting chemical compounds in which the onset of an observable property (discoloration or coloration) occurs after a predictable induction time due to the presence of clock species at a ...

known as

Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction A Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, or BZ reaction, is one of a class of reactions that serve as a classical example of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, resulting in the establishment of a nonlinear chemical oscillator. The only common element in ...

in the 1960s and published a comprehensive body of experimental data on chemical

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and pattern formation in nonuniform media. The reaction had been discovered by

Boris Pavlovich Belousov Boris Pavlovich Belousov (russian: Бори́с Па́влович Белоу́сов, link=no; 19 February 1893 – 12 June 1970) was a Soviet chemist and biophysicist who discovered the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction (BZ reaction) in the earl ...

in the early 1950s. From 1991 until his death, Zhabotinsky was an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at

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References

External links

Zhabotinsky page
at Brandeis

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zhabotinsky, Anatol Markovich 1938 births 2008 deaths Russian Jews Jewish scientists Russian physicists 20th-century American physicists Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology faculty Lenin Prize winners Soviet Jews Soviet biophysicists