Yuri A. Barbanel (also Yuri A. Barbanel’, Yury Abramovich Barbanel) (8 April 1935 – 2 August 2016) was a distinguished Russian chemist born in 1935 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). He obtained a Master of Science in chemistry from A. A. Zhdanov Leningrad State University, now

Saint Petersburg State University Saint Petersburg State University (SPBU; russian: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет) is a public research university in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Founded in 1724 by a decree of Peter the G ...

, in 1958 and his Ph.D. in 1964 and his D.Sc. in 1991. Barbanel was a scientist in the fundamental radiochemistry branch of the

V.G. Khlopin Radium Institute The V. G. Khlopin Radium Institute, also known as the First Radium Institute, is a research and production institution located in Saint Petersburg specializing in the fields of nuclear physics, radio- and geochemistry, and on ecological topics, ...

in St. Petersburg until his retirement in 2011. His research interests included optical spectra induced by radioluminescence and

coordination chemistry A coordination complex consists of a central atom or ion, which is usually metallic and is called the ''coordination centre'', and a surrounding array of bound molecules or ions, that are in turn known as ''ligands'' or complexing agents. Many ...

of the actinides, and absorption spectra of the actinides in molten salts.

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