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Boris TsukerblatMoldovan and Israeli physicist, chemist, mathematician
Date of Birth: 24.07.1939
Country:  Israel |
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Biography of Boris Tsukerblat
Boris Tsukerblat was a Moldovan and Israeli physicist, chemist, and mathematician. He was born in Ukraine in 1939. Tsukerblat completed his studies at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Kishinev State University and pursued his postgraduate studies under the guidance of Professor Y.E. Perlin. He worked in the laboratory of inorganic chemistry at the Academy of Sciences of the Moldavian SSR, led by academician A.V. Ablov.
Academic Achievements
Tsukerblat defended his candidate dissertation in 1967 at Kazan State University and his doctoral dissertation in 1975 at Tartu University. He became a professor at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the State University of Moldova and simultaneously led a research group on molecular magnetism at the Institute of Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova. In 2002, he became a professor at the Faculty of Chemistry at Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva.
Scientific Contributions
During the mid-1960s, Tsukerblat, along with Y.E. Perlin, formulated and solved the problem of multiphonon transitions in impurity centers with small radii. His main scientific interests were in the field of the Jahn-Teller effect and vibronic interactions in molecules and crystals, non-radiative transitions, magnetic interactions in metal clusters, group theory, and irreducible tensor operators. One of his articles, "High-Nuclearity Magnetic Clusters: Generalized Spin Hamiltonian and Its Use for the Calculation of the Energy Levels, Bulk Magnetic Properties, and Inelastic Neutron Scattering Spectra," published in the journal Inorganic Chemistry, was listed among the most cited scientific papers (1% of the most cited scientific works) according to Thomson Scientific (ISI) Essential Science Indicators.
Personal Life
Boris Tsukerblat's wife, Clara Leonidovna Zhignya, holds a doctorate in historical sciences. From 1992 to 2002, she served as a leading research fellow in the Department of Jewish History and Culture (Judaic Studies) at the Institute of National Minorities of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Moldova. She is the author of works on the contemporary history of the Balkan region, the Kishinev pogroms of 1903 and 1905, and monographs on the peace treaties with Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania after World War II and the imperialist policies of the United States and Great Britain towards Bulgaria and Romania from 1944 to 1974.
