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.