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Nikolay Vatolin

Nikolay Vatolin is a chemistry topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Nikolay Vatolin rather than just read about it. In short: Nikolay Anatolyevich Vatolin (13 November 1926 – 11 August 2018) was a Soviet and Russian metallurgist. He was born in Sverdlovsk and educated at the Ural State Technical University.

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Reference excerpt

Nikolay Anatolyevich Vatolin (13 November 1926 – 11 August 2018) was a Soviet and Russian metallurgist. He was born in Sverdlovsk and educated at the Ural State Technical University. He was a scientific researcher, Head of laboratory and from 1968 Director of the USSR Academy of Sciences Institute of Metallurgy (Urals Branch) from 1952 to 1998, after which he was an adviser to the Academy. He was also a professor at the Ural State Mining University from 1973. He was a major specialist in the field of the physical chemistry of metallurgical processes. In particular, he studied the structural-sensitive properties of liquid metals and their alloys, studying their electrical properties. He carried out studies of the non-stoichiometry of oxide melts containing transition metal ions. Under his leadership, with the help of an original high-temperature diffractometer developed in the same group, he produced a series of papers on the diffraction study of the atomic structure and the nature of the interatomic interaction in metallic and oxide melts.

Honours and awards Academician of the USSR (later Russian) Academy of Sciences, 1981 USSR state prize, 1982 and 1991 Kurnakow Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1995 Demidov Prize, 1997

References

Article partly based on the equivalent article on Russian Wikipedia

Worked examples

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

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Applications of Nikolay Vatolin

In research: Nikolay Vatolin appears in chemistry research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Nikolay Vatolin in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Nikolay Vatolin is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1926 births, 2018 deaths, 20th-century Russian chemists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Nikolay Vatolin outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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What is Nikolay Vatolin in simple terms?

Nikolay Anatolyevich Vatolin (13 November 1926 – 11 August 2018) was a Soviet and Russian metallurgist. He was born in Sverdlovsk and educated at the Ural State Technical University.

Why does Nikolay Vatolin matter?

Because it connects several chemistry ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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