Polymers in Eastern Europe

The year 1989 marked the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Division of Polymers and Composite Materials within the framework of the Institute of Chemical Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The conference to commemorate this event was held October 19–21, 1989. The results obtained by the division for the last 30 years were discussed. The division was created in 1959 on the initiative of Academician N. N. Semyenov, later the director of the institute. First, Prof. A. M. Markevich was appointed the head of the division. From the early 1970s to the late 1980s the division was headed by Academician N. S. Enikolopov; in 1988 Prof. A. A. Berlin was elected in charge of the division. About 700 people, including 50 doctors of sciences and 250 candidates for doctor of science degrees are engaged in the work of the division at the present time.