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In Memoriam Igor P. Suzdalev

It is with deepest sadness that the International Board on the 
Applications of the Mossbauer Effect (IBAME) announces the passing of its 
Member


                    Professor Igor Petrovich Suzdalev

  Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

                      who died on 8 February 2012.

We shall miss him. Our thoughts are with his family.

Below and attached find the obituary by Prof. Igor S. Lyubutin.

                              D.L. Nagy
                            Chair, IBAME

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On blessed memory of Igor P. Suzdalev

With the extreme sorry and deepest sadness we announce the passing of Igor 
P. Suzdalev, the Russian representative to IBAME, Professor of the 
Institute of Chemical Physics in Russian Academy of Sciences, who died 
suddenly from myocardial infarction on 08 February 2012.

Igor P. Suzdalev was born in Moscow on September 04, 1938. He graduated 
from the Moscow Engineering-Physics Institute in 1962. He defended his PhD 
thesis in 1965 and the Doctoral thesis in 1976. In 1983, he became 
Professor of the Institute of Chemical Physics of Russian Academy of 
Sciences, and in 2001 he accepted the position of Professor of the 
Department of Material Sciences in Moscow State University.

Professor Igor P. Suzdalev is a world-wide famous scientist in the field 
of nanotechnology, nanodiagnostics, nanoclusters and nanostructures, in 
physical chemistry of surface and heterostructures. He discovered and 
investigated new size-effects in nanoclusters and nanosystems including 
unusual magnetic properties, solid-liquid and metal-insulator transitions. 
He fulfilled pioneer studies of dynamic structure of globular proteins 
applying the Mossbauer spectroscopy. He developed the applications of 
Mossbauer methods in investigations of dynamics of elemental acts and 
phase transitions in chemical reactions, absorption, catalysis, and worked 
out the Rayleigh scattering of Mossbauer radiation for studying the 
intramolecular dynamics of macromolecules and proteins.

He published four books and over four hundred papers. His last book 
.Electrical and magnetic transitions in nanoclusters and nanostructures. 
appears just last month.

Igor Suzdalev was the best and loved pupil and follower of Vitaliy 
Goldanskiy. Since 1997 he was the Russian representative to IBAME, and the 
Associate Editor of MERDJ.

Being a very intelligent and high-cultured person, Igor Suzdalev was 
always the life and soul of the party. He was fond of music. The Mossbauer 
community remembers him as a wonderful piano player who often entertained 
us at banquets during the ICAME meetings. With his untimely death we lost 
not only a famous and talented scientist but a wonderful and unique 
person.

We shall miss Igor Suzdalev and keep blessed memory about him forever. Our 
thoughts are with his family.

I.S. Lyubutin

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