Nationality Russia Died August 5, 2009 | Known for founder of DNA physics Name Yuri Lazurkin | |
Fields Polymer physics, DNA physics Institutions Leningrad Physico-Technical InstituteI. V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic EnergyRussian Academy of Sciences Institution Ioffe Institute, Kurchatov Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences | ||
Doctoral students Edward Trifonov Doctoral advisor Anatoly Alexandrov | ||
Yuri Semenovich Lazurkin was a Russian physicist and a founder of a new discipline DNA physics.
Scientific career
Lazurkin started his career in a novel field polymer physics. During World War II, he was in the Navy and worked on demagnetizing of ships.
After the war, he returned to polymer physics. One of the phenomenons that his laboratory studied and greatly contributed to its understanding, was DNA melting.
References
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