V. G. Plotnikov: Life in Science
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V. G. PLOTNIKOV: LIFE IN SCIENCE G. V. Mayer, V. Ya. Artyukhov, and O. K. Bazyl’
UDC 539.194:535.37
The role of Professor V. G. Plotnikov in the development of the theoretical molecular photonics is discussed. A review is given of the principal results and the list of his publications covering the creation of the Nurmukhametrov–Plotnikov–Shigorin spectral-luminescent systematics of molecules. The main results of the theory for the radiationless conversion in polyatomic molecules, constructed by V. G. Plotnikov, are presented. Keywords: spectral-luminescent systematics of molecules, radiationless conversion, photochemistry, polyatomic molecules, basic principles of luminescence, active laser media.
The term ‘molecular photonics’ was coined by Academician A. N. Terenin, who introduced it to describe the field of investigation of the processes occurring in the molecular systems after absorbing a quantum of light and forming electronically excited states [1]. The concept of molecular photonics was brought to Tomsk by Natalia Aleksandrovna Prilezhaeva, Terenin’s student and co-worker, who was exiled to Tomsk as a “socially alien element” (she was a noblewoman) from Leningrad in 1935. At the department of theoretical physics of the Siberian Physical Technical Institute (SPTI) headed by Professor P. S. Tartakovskii (a former inhabitant of Leningrad too), a laboratory of spectroscopy – the first in Siberia – was established for her, which consisted of three researchers. In that laboratory, N. A. Prilezhaeva continued her research work in spectroscopy and photochemistry of complex molecules [2]. In 1937, Natalia Aleksandrovna defended her candidate degree thesis “Photochemical processes in complex molecules”, and in 1938 – her doctoral thesis “Conversion of electron energy in elementary processes” at an age of 30 years together with V. M. Kudryavtseva, among the few women – doctors of physical-mathematical sciences in the USSR. Among the numerous followers of N.A. Prilezhaeva were Academician V. E. Zuev, the founder of the Institute of atmospheric optics SB RAS [3], Doctor of chemical sciences V. I. Danilova, the initiator of using quantum chemistry in investigation of the spectra of polyatomic molecules in Tomsk [4], and many other well-known optical scientists. Viktor Georgievich Plotnikov was quite lucky to find himself as a Prilezhaeva’s graduate student in this remarkable environment in 1962. He was born on August 27, 1940 in Novosibirsk and, after graduating from the Chemical department of the Tomsk State University (TSU) in 1962, he entered the TSU graduate school and began his research work in V. I. Danilova’s team focusing on the spectroscopy of polyatomic molecules in the SPTI laboratory of spectroscopy of atoms and molecules. He prepared his thesis “Spectral and physical-chemical properties of n-electrons» (code number 01.04.05–optics) [5] for a candidate of physics and mathematics degree under the supervision of N. A. Prilezhaeva and V. I. Danilova. The fact that both his supervisors were prominent representa
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