Tolstoy, Valeri P. 1950-
TOLSTOY, Valeri P. 1950-
PERSONAL:
Surname is sometimes transliterated "Tolstoi"; born December 27, 1950, in Briansk, U.S.S.R. (now Russia); son of Pavel (a civil engineer) and Taisia (an economist) Tolstoy; married Olga Krasnova, October 28, 1971 (divorced January 25, 1992); children: Irina. Ethnicity: "Russian." Education: Institute of Technology, Leningrad, U.S.S.R. (now St. Petersburg, Russia), M.Sc., 1974, Ph.D., 1981. Politics: Social Democrat. Hobbies and other interests: Painting.
ADDRESSES:
Home—St. Petersburg, Russia. Office—Institute of Chemistry, St. Petersburg State University, University 26, St. Petersburg 198504, Russia. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER:
St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, scientist at Institute of Chemistry, 1974-83, senior scientist, 1984-85, associate professor, 1996—. Military service: Soviet Army, 1972; became senior lieutenant.
MEMBER:
New York Academy of Sciences.
WRITINGS:
UV-Vis and IR Spectroscopy of Nanolayers, St. Petersburg State University Press (St. Petersburg, Russia), 1998.
(With Irina V. Chernyshova and Valeri A. Skryshevsky) Handbook of Infrared Spectroscopy of Ultrathin Films, Wiley-Interscience (Hoboken, NJ), 2003.
Contributor to books, including IR Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Structures, Kiev University Press (Kiev, Ukraine), 1992. Contributor to scientific journals.