作者: Vitaly V. Slezov

Vitaly V. Slezov is Professor at the Kharkov National University and Head of Department at the National Science Center, Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology. He began his scientific career at this institute in 1954 in the theoretical department headed by I. M. Lifshitz, with whom he developed the theory of the late stages of evolution of supersaturated solid solutions, cited today as the Lifshitz-Slezov (LS) Theory or Lifshitz-Slezov-Wagner (LSW) Theory. He was twice awarded the State Prizes for Science and Technology of the Ukraine (in 1978 and 1993).