The Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics of

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(RAS) (now known as the Semenov ICP in Moscow ), was established in 1931 under the direction of Professor

Nikolay Semyonov Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov , sometimes Semenov, Semionov or Semenoff (; – 25 September 1986) was a Soviet physicist and chemist. Semyonov was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the mechanism of chemical transformat ...

, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1956) on the basis of the Physico-Chemical Sector of the Leningrad Physical Technical Institute (

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). The staff of the Institute includes about 450 researchers. The Institute has been situated in Moscow since 1943. It is affiliated with the

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and has chairs at the

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. The Institute's aim has been defined as "the implementation of physical theories and methods into chemistry, chemical industry and some other branches of national economy". Its main areas of scientific inquiry are the kinetics and mechanism of chemical reactions, catalysis of chemical reactions, theory and dynamics of elementary processes, physics and chemistry of solids, structure and properties of polymers and composites, fundamentals of polymerization processes, physics and chemistry of combustion, shock waves and detonation. In 1956, a branch of the Institute of Chemical Physics was established in

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; this was reorganized in 1997 as the independent

Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics The Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics (IPCP)See the web sitInstitute of Problems of Chemical Physics RAS () of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) consists of 10 scientific departments and about 100 laboratories each one held by an inde ...

(IPCP RAS). Another department of the Semenov Institute was reorganized in 1994 as the N. M. Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics in Moscow of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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