Eugene
L. Frankevich
(Deceased 2006)
Prof.
Frankevich was a
member of the Institute of Energy Problems of Chemical Physics in
Moscow. He was a co-editor
with Prof. Edgar Silinsh of the Russian translation of my book with
Charles E. Swenberg “Electronic
Process in Organic Crystals”. He was an innovative scientist who
introduced the use of moderate magnetic fields and microwave excitation
to elucidate the mechanisms of a wide variety of chemical and physical
processes involving the participation of reactants of which at least one
had a non-zero spin coordinate.
Igor Sokolik
Dr.
Sokolik is presently in the Department of Polymer Science and
Engineering in the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Dr. Sokolik
was formerly a staff scientist at the Institute of Energy Problems of
Chemical Physics in Moscow. He carried out seminal experiments with E.L.
Frankevich on the effect of weak magnetic fields and microwaves on the
interactions of triplet excitons, polarons
and other entities carrying an excess electron spin.
He came to the NYU Chemistry Department as a Visiting Scientist
and remained in the United States.
He has made numerous discoveries in organic electroluminescence.
He helped translate the book “Electronic Processes in Organic
Crystals” into Russian, and together with Prof. Lewis Rothberg of the
University of Rochester, arranged the International Conference in honor
of Prof. Martin Pope at the University of Rochester in 1998.