Alexander Patashinski

Adjunct Professor
Doctor of Physics and Mathematics (the Russian habilitation degree), Kharkov-Moscow, 1968

1992 - present. Research Professor, Northwestern University
1968 - 1992. Professor of Physics, Novosibirsk State University
1968 - 1997. Chief Sci. Fellow, Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences, Siberian Division, Novosibirsk, Russia
1961 - 1968. Senior Sci. Fellow, Institute for Thermophysics, USSR Academy of Sciences, Siberian Division, Novosibirsk, Russia
1960 Kapitza Institute, Moscow, Russia

Selected Awards
APS Fellow, (2003)
NASA Summer Fellow (1998)
Order of Labor Glory (1990)
Scientific Achievement Diploma (1986)
Landau Prize, USSR Academy of Sciences (1983)
Professor of Physics and Mathematics (honorary diploma), Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia, 1981

Selected Publications
Book
A.Z.Patashinskii, V.L. Pokrovskii, Fluctuation theory of phase transitions, 4 editions: Moscow, Nauka, 1975, 1982 (in Russian).), Pergamon, Oxford, 1979 (in English), Reuniti Roma & Mir Moscow 1985 (In Italian).

Journal articles
A.Z. Patashinski, V. L. Pokrovskii, and I.M. Khalatnikov, "Quasi-classical scattering in a central symmetric field", Sov. Phys. JETP 17, 683 (1964).
A.Z. Patashinski, V.K. Pines and A.A. Kharkov, "Dumping law for the external fields of a collapsing body", Sov. Phys. JETP 39, 187 (1974).
A.C. Mitus, A.Z. Patashinski, and B.I. Shumilo, "Liquid-liquid phase transition", Phys. Lett. 113A, 41 (1985).
K. Levon, A. Margolina, and A.Z. Patashinski. "Multiple percolation in conductive polymer blends", Macromolecules 26, 4061 (1993).
K. Song, R.P.H. Chang, J.B. Ketterson, and A.Z. Patashinski, "Magnetic susceptibility of buckytubes", J. of Materials Research 9(6), 1578 (1994).
A.Z. Patashinski, M.A. Ratner, J. Moore, J. Bicerano, S. Mudrich, “Stress-biased rearrangements and pre-yield behavior in glasses”, J. of Phys. Chem. B 110 (29), 14452, 2006.
A.Z. Patashinski and M.A. Ratner, “Heterophasic oscillations in nanometer-size systems”, Phys. Rev. E 78, 041106, 2008.