Oleg Borisovich Ptitsyn: July 18, 1929–March 22, 1999
✍ Scribed by Alexei Finkelstein
- Book ID
- 101227178
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 61 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0887-3585
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✦ Synopsis
Oleg Borisovich Ptitsyn died suddenly on the morning of March 22, 1999. He was an outstanding scientist, one of the creators of modern polymer theory, and a major figure in the protein folding field. During his lifetime he had seen protein science undergo many revolutions and had contributed to most of them.
Oleg Ptitsyn was born in 1929 in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). After a short pre-war childhood, he experienced the hardships of the German blockade and evacuation and the difficult return to his home. In 1946, he entered the Physics Department at the Leningrad University where he graduated in 1951. During that time, he was mentored by M.V. Volkenstein, a young, but already recognized, polymer physics theorist, under whom he obtained his degree. This mentoring lead to the creation of the rotationalisomeric theory of polymers and the long-standing collaboration of Ptitsyn and Volkenstein; their joint publications appearing over a 40 year span.