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As early as during his student years he used to take part in concerts as a
pianist. Two physicists Verkin - Lifshits would often play duets on the piano. Among the
composers whose works were played in these concerts were Skryabin, Grieg, Bach,
Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Mozart. B. I. put a great deal of effort into construction of The
Scientific Council Hall in his institute, which soon became the best philharmonic hall in
Kharkov. And in order to deliver in safety the Paderevsky's grand piano from Nezhin where
it happened to be found, B. I. had to turn for help to the first secretary of Kharkov
regional Communist party committee Vashenko G. I. and the help was given. In
"physical philharmonic society", set up by B. I. Verkin in ILTPE, were
constantly organised concerts where played musicians from Moscow, international contests
prize winners. Interesting to note that B. I. ended up being sued for "financial
undermining" of Kharkov Philharmonic Society of State Concert Office as a result of
brilliant activities of "ILTPE physical philharmonic society" organised by him.
It could be experessed as "Art needs in victims". |
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B. I. Verkin's personal book collection included over 20 000 copies of
works of art and sculpture from museums around he world, many volumes of rare monographs
on art. This is another indication of the remarkable personality of the modern scientist
which increases his professionalism and dignity. In 1940, Boris Verkin graduated from
Kharkov State University. He was 21 at that time.
From February 1942 to November 1946 he fought in military units near Stalingrad front
line and Trans-Caucasus military district, suffered injury and concussion. |
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From 1946 to 1960, he worked in UTPI (Ukrainian Technical Physics
Institute) as a researcher in the field of low temperature physics.
In 1951, B. I. Verkin became a candidate of sciences, and in 1957, - a Doctor Physical
and Mathematical science.
Since that time he contributes his multifarious talent to the development of solid
matter physics and low temperature physics: the talent of a professional scientist, of the
head of a team of scientists, the talent of the initiator and organiser of large scale
theoretical research and applied engineering schemes. |
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The scientist himself personally conducted research - often innovative and
high priority - in the field of electronic characteristics of metals, superconductivity,
low temperature and vacuum material theory, superconductor magnetic systems, cryogenic
liquids physics, cryogenic biology and medicine. B. I. Verkin discovered and researched
magnetic receptivity oscillation in many different metals and demonstrated global metallic
nature of this phenomenon. He also was the first one to show high sensitivity of
electronic layers in metals to impact of admixtures and strains. These works by B. I.
combined with E. S. Borovik's works on galvanic and magnetic effects in metals at low
temperatures, which to a geat degree prompted I. M. Lifshits and his school to design the
modern theory of electronic characteristics of metals. |
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In his follow up works B. I. conducted systematic research into monotonous
part of magnetic taking up of metals. He was first to discover in this area a lot of new
characteristics. By virtue of the scientist and his disciples and colleagues' works
magnetic taking up became an important tool in disordered systems research. During
almost thirty years B. I. Verkin was engaged in organizing a school of cryo-physicists,
experimenters and theorists, used to be their head. They were academicians V. V.
Yeremenko, I. M. Dmitrenko, V. G. Manzhiliy, corresponding members I. O. Kulik, I. K.
Yanson, professors I. V. Svechkarev, I. Y. Fugol, Y. P. Blagoy, Y. A. Kirichenko and
others. |
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The main research line of this school are: the physics of ordinary metals
at low temperatures, high magnetic fields and high pressures, the physics of magnetically
ordered structures, mainly антиферромагнетиков, the physics of crystals
- solidified gases, the physics of loose super-conducting systems, the physical properties
of biological macro-molecules. B. I. Verkin together with his colleagues developed
super-conductive tunnel spectroscopy method, expanded it to determine photon spectres.
They also developed the theory basics, engineering calculation methods, studied the
processes of heat and mass transfer in cryogenic systems at high centrifugal overcharge,
worked out hints on use of super-conductive and construction materials and were the first
in our country to construct and test 5 and 300 megawatt turbogenerator with
super-conductive excitation winding. |
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In 1980's the scientist set a series of experiments on structure, heat
capacity, magnetic and optical properties of super-conductive ceramics - high temperature
superconductors. B. I. Verkin together with academicians S. A. Vekshinsky, S. N. Vernov
and others are the creators of science of space materials. He conducted research of
physical and mechanical properties of weld and solder seams of construction materials in
mock space conditions, of possible lubricants, seal, friction and wear in these
conditions. On the scientist's initiative in ILTPE was conducted a series of research
works on hydrodynamics of liquids if weightlessness. |
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B. I. Verkin and his colleagues initiated the development of Soviet Union
nitrogen technology: in transportation of perishable products, to create inertial and
controlled environment in storehouses, in cryogenic pounding of organic and non-organic
materials (food powders, recycling of used tires), in cryogenic sublime drying and others. Nitrogen
technologies developed by B. I. Verkin are closed related to the series of works on
creation and wider application of cryogenic surgical instruments for gynecology,
obstetrics, urinology, ophthalmology, otology, laryngology and stomatology.
During the last years of his life B. I. Verkin and his colleagues successfully effected
DNA and RNA molecule crystallization, and developed a new method of macro molecular
interaction research.
At present Institute of Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of Ukrainian National
Academy of Sciences proudly and gratefully bears his name. |
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