E.A. PORAI-KOSHITS. A CAREER PATH IN SCIENCE

The life of Evgeniy Aleksandrovich Porai-Koshits is a remarkable example of commitment to the research field which has been chosen in his youth and remained the focus of attention throughout his entire creative work. Evgeniy Aleksandrovich Porai-Koshits (1907 ? 1999) took on the research of glass structure at the time when the ideas of glass structure had only begun to emerge and passed away when the whole range of stages of basic research in the field of glass structure had propelled this knowledge area to the next, higher level.