Contribution of prominent scientists to the formation and development of the A. V. Topchiyev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis and its specializations

This issue of Neftekhimiya presents papers given at the October 1994 session marking the sixtieth anniversary of the A. V. Topchiyev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The first paper outlines the part played by prominent scientists in the formation and development of the Institute.