60th birthday of vasil' pokhmurs'kii
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Materials Science, Vol. 29, No. 4, July-August, 1993
60TH BIRTHDAY OF VASIL' POKHMURS'KII
Vasil' Ivanovich Pokhmurs'kii is an associate member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, D. Sc. in Technical
Sciences, a professor, and is also a famous Ukrainian materials science expert, scientific organizer, and teacher.
He was born on August 2, 1933 at L'vivshchini into a peasant family. He received his higher education at L'viv
Polytechnical Institute. Between 1956 and 1961, he worked at Chernivets engineering plant, where he progressed from engineer
to head of the design office and assistant to the principal designer at the plant. From 1961 to the present, he has worked at the
Karpenko Physicomechanics Institute, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Between 1962 and 1964, he was a research student
under Academician G. Karpenko, and in 1964 he presented his Ph.D. , and in 1969, his D. Sc. In 1973, he was awarded the
title of professor, and in 1990 he was elected an associate member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Since 1970, he has
headed the department of physicochemical material strengthening methods, and since 1990 he has been the director of the
division of corrosion problems and deputy to the director of the institute for scientific research. For quite some years he has
also taught at the department of metal physics and materials science at L'viv Polytechnical Institute.
He has made a major contribution to developments in the theory and technology of thermomechanical steel treatment
and the production of new diffusion, electroplating, and gas-thermal multicomponent coatings. Together with his students, in
the 1970s he identified and demonstrated theoretically the phenomenon of accelerated diffusion in metals in the presence of
dissolved hydrogen, which opened up prospects for hydrogen technology in thermal and chemicothermal treatment and in the diffusion welding of metals. Major contributions were made to the theory of corrosion-mechanical metal failure. Experimental
and theoretical studies were made on the effects of chemical composition and structure in alloys and on the surface state and
sample geometry or loading conditions on the resistance to stress corrosion cracking, which have been surveyed in a series of
books. He was awarded the Karpenko Prize of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences for that series of researches. Those"
researches provided the scientific basis for choosing steels and methods of strengthening them in making large-size components
for use in corrosive media. Under his direction, new technological processes were devised for strengthening the shafts in sea- going vessels, the bits in drilling tubes, and other components in drilling columns for deep and marine drilling, which have
been widely used in industry with a significant economic effect.
Translated from Fiziko-KhimicheskayaMekhanika Materialov, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 127-128, July-August, 1993.
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He was also awarded the prize of the Council of Ministers of the USSR for developing and implementing engineering
processes for making large shafts for unique transport ships and nuclear turbines.
His researches have defined the effects of hydrogen at high parameters on the cracking resistance in reactor steels,
which have been incorporated into standardization documents for strength calculations and lifetime measurements on nuclear
power plant.
At present, he is conducting a new series of flmdamental researches on the interaction of a deformed metal with the
surrounding medium at the atomic level by the use of quantum-chemical methods and the examination of theoretical models and components by means of computerized materials science.
Professor Pokhmurs'kii has devoted much attention to training scientific staffs. Under his direction, about 40 Ph.D. 's
and D. Sc.'s have been trained. A major contribution has been made by his scientific school of materials scientists as regards
strengthening methods and improving the corrosion and mechanical resistance for constructional materials. He is the author
of about 400 scientific publications, including five books and more than 30 patents.
He takes an active part in organizing science and in accelerating the industrial use of scientific discoveries; he is the
chairman of the Ukrainian Association of Corrosion Researchers and a member of various scientific and training bodiesl He
has been a member of the editorial board of this journal for over 25 years.
The editorial board and the editors of the journal congratulate him on his anniversary and wish him good health,
creative advances, and new scientific discoveries.
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