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Svetlana Zaginaichenko

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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Yurievna and the family name is Zaginaichenko.
Svetlana Yurievna Zaginaichenko
Загинайченко Світлана Юріївна
Born
Svetlana Yurievna Zaginaichenko

(1957-08-10)10 August 1957
Kyiv, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Died23 November 2015(2015-11-23) (aged 58)
Dnipro, Ukraine
Alma materOles Honchar Dnipro National University, National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine
Known forCarbon materials, hydrogen energy
MotherZinaida Alfredivna Matysina
Scientific career
InstitutionsDepartment № 67 Materials hydrogen and carbon nanostructures, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kurdyumov Institute of Metal Physics
Thesis Solubility, magnetism and redistribution of atoms of alloys of hexagonal ordering structures  (1984)
Doctoral advisorG.M. Vorobiev

Svetlana Yurievna Zaginaichenko (Ukrainian: Світлана Юріївна Загінайченко, Russian: Светлана Юрьевна Загинайченко; 10 August 1957 - 23 November 2015) was a Ukrainian solid state physicist. She studied the physical properties of carbon materials and their application to hydrogen energy storage. She was a nominee for the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work in studying fullerenes.[1]

Education

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Zaginaichenko earned a physics degree with honors from Oles Honchar Dnipro National University in 1979.[2]

In 1984, Zaginaichenko defended her dissertation on the physical properties of hexagonally-structured and interstitial alloys at Dnipro Metallurgical Institute, earning the degree of Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (which is the Soviet equivalent of a Doctor of Philosophy).[3] Her thesis focused on hexagonal close-packed structures and developed theories for impurity solubility, interstitial atom kinetics, and magnetism of such alloys.

A memorial plaque commemorating Zaginaichenko's life, located on the house in Dnipro where she grew up.

Career

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From 4 November 1995 until her death in 2015, Zaginaichenko was a leading researcher at the Department for Hydrogen Materials and Carbon Nanostructures at the Institute for Problems of Materials Sciences at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.[4] She was one of the founding members of the Association of Hydrogen Energy in Ukraine (AHEU), which was formed with the support of Turhan Nejat Veziroglu, the president of the International Association of Hydrogen Energy.[5] She was also part of the organizing committee for the International Conference of Carbon Nanomaterials in Clean Energy Hydrogen Systems.[6]

She was nominated for the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry[7] for her work in studying the physical structure of fullerenes and proving that they have three main configurations[8] (isomers). However, she died before the 2016 announcement of the prize, so even if the prize committee had chosen to honor this contribution, the prize's rules against posthumous awards would have prevented her from winning it.[9]

Awards

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Загінайченко Світлана Юріївна — Енциклопедія Сучасної України. ISBN 9789660220744. Retrieved 2022-03-30. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  2. ^ a b c Загинайченко С.Ю., Матысина З.А., Щур Д.В., Джавадов Н.Ф. Статистическая теория фуллеритов и особенности их практического использования / Щур Д.В.. — Научная монография посвящена памяти Светланы Юрьевны Загинайченко. — Киев : «КИМ», 2016. — С. I—IV. — 486 с.
  3. ^ Загинайченко Светлана Юрьевна. Растворимость, магнетизм и перераспределение атомов в упорядочивающихся сплавах гексагональных структур / проф.,д.ф-м.н. Воробьев Г.М.. — Ученая cтепень: кандидат физико-математических наук. — Днепропетровск : Минестерство высшего и среднего образования СССР Днепропетровский металургический институт имени Л. И. Брежнева, 1984. — 192 с.
  4. ^ "Institute for Problems of Materials Sciences National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine". www.nas.gov.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2022-03-30.
  5. ^ "Ассоциация Водородной Энергетики в Украине". www.aheu.com.ua. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
  6. ^ "XII International Conference CARBON NANOMATERIALS Hydrogen Systems". aheu.com.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-03-30.
  7. ^ ""Исследование процессов и систем водородного и гелиоводородного преобразования энергии"". 2019-03-21. Archived from the original on 21 March 2019. Retrieved 2022-03-31.
  8. ^ Schur, D. V.; Zaginaichenko, S. Y.; Veziroglu, T. N. (2015-02-19). "The hydrogenation process as a method of investigation of fullerene C60 molecule". International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 40 (6): 2742–2762. doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.12.092. ISSN 0360-3199.
  9. ^ "Five things to know about the Nobel prizes". Times of India. October 4, 2021.
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