Yuri A. Barbanel

Who is Yuri A. Barbanel?

Yuri A. Barbanel is a leading Russian chemist born in 1935 in Leningrad. He obtained a Master of Science in chemistry from A. A. Zhdanov Leningrad State University, now Saint Petersburg State University, in 1958 and his Ph.D. in 1964 and his D.Sc. in 1991. Barbanel is currently a scientist in the fundamental radiochemistry branch of the V.G. Khlopin Radium Institute in St. Petersburg. His research interests include optical spectra induced by radioluminescence and coordination chemistry of the actinides, and absorption spectra of the actinides in molten salts.