We got a bad news yesterday that Professor Igor Petrovich Suzdalev of
Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow,
passed away suddenly from myocardial infarction on 8 February 2012. He
was the Russian representative of International Board on the
Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (IBAME), an associate editor
of MERDJ, a world-wide famous scientist in the field of nanotechnology,
nanodiagnostics, nanoclusters and nanostructures, as well as in physical
chemistry of surface and heterostructures.
We feel sorry and sad for his gone. Let's mourn for his passing.
Below find the obituary by Prof. Igor S. Lyubutin.
Tao Zhang
Director and Editor
Junhu Wang
Secretary General and Editor
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On blessed memory of Igor P. Suzdalev
With the extreme sorry and deepest sadness we announce the passing of
Igor P. Suzdalev, the Russian representative to IBAME, Professor of the
Institute of Chemical Physics in Russian Academy of Sciences, who died
suddenly from myocardial infarction on 08 February 2012.
Igor P. Suzdalev was born in Moscow on September 04, 1938. He
graduated from the Moscow Engineering-Physics Institute in 1962. He
defended his PhD thesis in 1965 and the Doctoral thesis in 1976. In
1983, he became Professor of the Institute of Chemical Physics of
Russian Academy of Sciences, and in 2001 he accepted the position of
Professor of the Department of Material Sciences in Moscow State
University.
Professor Igor P. Suzdalev is a world-wide famous scientist in the
field of nanotechnology, nanodiagnostics, nanoclusters and
nanostructures, in physical chemistry of surface and heterostructures.
He discovered and investigated new size-effects in nanoclusters and
nanosystems including unusual magnetic properties, solid-liquid and
metal-insulator transitions. He fulfilled pioneer studies of dynamic
structure of globular proteins applying the Mossbauer spectroscopy. He
developed the applications of Mossbauer methods in investigations of
dynamics of elemental acts and phase transitions in chemical reactions,
absorption, catalysis, and worked out the Rayleigh scattering of
Mossbauer radiation for studying the intramolecular dynamics of
macromolecules and proteins.
He published four books and over four hundred papers. His last book
<Electrical and magnetic transitions in nanoclusters and
nanostructures> appears just last month.
Igor Suzdalev was the best and loved pupil and follower of Vitaliy
Goldanskiy. Since 1997 he was the Russian representative to IBAME, and
the Associate Editor of MERDJ.
Being a very intelligent and high-cultured person, Igor Suzdalev was
always the life and soul of the party. He was fond of music. The
Mossbauer community remembers him as a wonderful piano player who often
entertained us at banquets during the ICAME meetings. With his untimely
death we lost not only a famous and talented scientist but a wonderful
and unique person.
We shall miss Igor Suzdalev and keep blessed memory about him
forever. Our thoughts are with his family.
I.S. Lyubutin
