Anatoly Zhabotinsky

Anatoli Markowitsch Schabotinski (Russian Анатолий Маркович Жаботинский, scientific transliteration Anatoly Markovič Žabotinskij, Anatol M. Zhabotinsky English transcription; born January 17, 1938 in Moscow, † 16 September 2008) was a Russian physicist of Jewish descent.

Schabotinski was since 1980 a professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and director of the Laboratory for Mathematical Modelling at the Institute for Biological investigation of chemical compounds in Moscow. Between 1962 and 1973 he worked at the Institute of Biological Physics, and there published his seminal work on the subject of oscillations and wave phenomena in chemical systems.

At the end of his career he worked as an adjunct professor at Brandeis University in the research group of Irving R. Epstein on oscillating reactions.

He has been awarded the Lenin Prize for his discovery of the Belousov -Zhabotinsky reaction. In 1990 he received the Max Planck Research Prize together with Stefan Müller.