Ó The Author(s) 2011. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Renad Sagdeev stands in a tradition of great Russian scientists in magnetic resonance and the chemistry of free radicals. He was a student of Yuri Molin, who himself had done his PhD with V.V. Voevodsky, one of the early leaders of the Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion (ICK&C) in Novosibirsk. Voevodsky, in turn, came from the school of the famous scientist and Nobel laureate N.N. Semenov. Shortly after the discovery of chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization (CIDNP) [1, 2] and its explanation in terms of the radical pair mechanism (RPM) [3, 4], Sagdeev and Molin started to explore several consequences of the RPM such as the effect of magnetic isotopes and magnetic fields on free radical reactions [5, 6]. A particularly interesting development was the stimulated nuclear polarization (SNP) experiment [7]. This experiment involves microwave irradiation of transient radical pairs in an auxiliary magnet outside the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer and allows the detection of the electron spin resonance spectrum of these short-lived species via the modulation of their CIDNP effects. Altogether, these novel results were crucial in establishing the field of Spin Chemistry as it is nowadays called and put the Novosibirsk group firmly on the map. They earned Renad

Many original contributions in Mechanics Collision of solid bodies Damage evolution in viscoelastic materials Shape memory alloys He published an important book: Non-smooth Thermomechanics

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Abstract The aim of this review is to draw a correlation between the structure of the DNArRNA hybrid and its properties as a substrate for the RNase H, as well as to point the crucial structural requirements for the modified AONs to preserve their RNase H potency. The review is divided Ž . Ž . into the following parts: 1 mechanistic considerations, 2 target RNA folding-AON folding-Ž . Ž . RNase H assistance in AONrRNA hybrid formation, 3 carbohydrate modifications, 4 back-Ž . Ž . Ž . bone modifications, 5 base modifications, 6 conjugated AONs, 7 importance of the tethered chromophore in AON for the AONrRNA hybrid interactions with the RNase H. The structural changes in the AONrRNA hybrid duplexes brought by different modifications of the sugar, backbone or base in the antisense strand, and the effect of these changes on the RNase H recognition of the modified substrates have been addressed. Only those AON modifications and the corresponding AONrRNA hybrids, which have been structurally characterized by spectroscopic means and functionally analyzed by their ability to elicit RNase H potency in comparison with the native counterpart have been presented here. q 2001 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.

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With this paper, dedicated to Gustav Feichtinger on the occasion of his 70-th anniver-sary, the authors—all being his former students and/or collaborators—want to summarize and honor his remarkable scientific contributions and academic activities, and wish him many years of a further active

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Motivated by the paper of Feit et al. [8] on centralizer nilpotent (abbreviated cn.) groups, Benkart and Isaacs [l] have studied c.n. Lie algebras 22 ’ over an algebraically closed field of arbitrary characteristic p. They show that g/nil 9 is simple where nil dp is the nilpotent radical of 9, and that Z/nil 2’