Pioneers of Adsorption Science 3. Professor A. V. Kiselev

Abstract

A short account is given of the life and work of Andrej Vladimirovich Kiselev (1908–1984). Kiselev was born and educated in Moscow, Russia. He was appointed assistant professor in the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1943 and became professor of physical chemistry in 1951. Thereafter, he directed the work of two large groups of research scientists, in laboratories of the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Kiselev's prodigious research output, over a period of about 30 years, was of great international importance and included theoretical and experimental studies on the specificity of physical adsorption, chromatography and the surface properties of carbons, oxides and zeolites.