Mostly known to colleagues and friends as Sasha, Aleksandr M. Kuznetsov (1938-2009) was uniquely friendly and highly concentrated person. He kept the spirit of Theoretical Department for two decades after the Department was mostly dispersed all over the world at the very beginning of 1990s. He was also very precise theoretical instructor for experimentalist, and a great lecturer.
Memorial texts in J. Electroanal. Chem. 660 (2011) issue 2 (memorial special issue) and in J. Solid State Electrochem. 2009. V. 13. P. 1801-1802.
Alexander Kuznetsov Prize for Theoretical Electrochemistry is awarded by International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) every two years, starting from 2010.
This 2004 photo was taken in 2004, when Sasha Kuznetsov presented Christmas lecture “Theory of Love” in Moscow University.
This is A.M. Kuznetsov’s complete list of publications (his own last version, one article published posthumously is added). Translations of a number of his early articles (originally published in Russian) are collected below. The articles co-authored with V.G. Levich can be found at Levich’s page.
Dogonadze R.R., Kuznetsov A.M. Kinetics of oxidation-reduction reactions in the system impurity semiconductor – electrolyte solution // Sov. Electrochem. 1965. V. 1. P. 661-663. Russian version: Elektrokhimiya. 1965. V. 1. P. 742-744.
Dogonadze R.R., Kuznetsov A.M. Some steady processes in semiconductor – electrolyte systems // Sov. Electrochem. 1965. V. 1. P. 898-900. Russian version: Elektrokhimiya. 1965. V. 1. P. 1008-1011.
Dogonadze R.R., Kuznetsov A.M., Chernenko A.A. Theory of slow electrons in liquids // Sov. Electrochem. 1965. V. 1. P. 1288-1295. Russian version: Elektrokhimiya. 1965. V. 1. P. 1434-1442.
Dogonadze R.R., Kuznetsov A.M., Chernenko A.A. Structure of the energy spectrum of the energy of electrons in unordered systems // Sov. Electrochem. 1966. V. 2. P. 578. Russian version: Elektrokhimiya. 1966. V. 2. P. 620.
Dogonadze R.R., Kuznetsov A.M. Role of the electron work function in electrochemical kinetics // Sov. Electrochem. 1967. V. 3. P. 329-331. Russian version: Elektrokhimiya. 1967. V. 3. P. 380-383.
Dogonadze R.R., Kuznetsov A.M. Influence of changes in the first coordination sphere of an ion on the reaction rate // Sov. Electrochem. 1967. V. 3. P. 1189-1194. Russian version: Elektrokhimiya. 1967. V. 3. P. 1324-1330.
Kuznetsov A.M. A contribution to the theory of the elementary act of charge-transfer reactions in liquids. I // Sov. Electrochem. 1969. V. 5. P. 439-441. Russian version: Elektrokhimiya. 1969. V. 5. P. 479-482. Part II is the next item (with a slightly different title).
Kuznetsov A.M. Elementary act of charge transfer in liquids. II // Sov. Electrochem. 1969. V. 5. P. 693-695. Russian version: Elektrokhimiya. 1969. V. 5. P. 742-745.
Vorotyntsev M.A., Kuznetsov A.M. Theory of electrochemical reactions involving the transfer of several electrons // Sov. Electrochem. 1970. V. 6. P. 196-199. Russian version: Elektrokhimiya. 1970. V. 6. P. 208-211.
Dogonadze R.R., Kuznetsov A.M. Kinetics of electrochemical processes. I. Semiphenomenological theory // Sov. Electrochem. 1971. V. 7. P. 158-164. Russian version: Elektrokhimiya. 1971. V. 7. P. 172-180.
Vorotyntsev M.A., Dogonadze R.R., Kuznetsov A.M. Kinetics of electrochemical processes. II. Phenomenological theory. General properties of polarization curves // Sov. Electrochem. 1971. V. 7. P. 289-294. Russian version: Elektrokhimiya. 1971. V. 7. P. 306-312.
Vorotyntsev M.A., Kats V.M., Kuznetsov A.M. Calculation of the kinetics of chemical reaction in polar liquids for anharmonic molecular potentials // Sov. Electrochem. 1971. V. 7. P. 577. Russian version: Elektrokhimiya. 1971. V. 7. P. 597. This is a single-page (with one Equation) abstact of 14-page article deposited to VINITI (ВИНИТИ), the institute formally responsible for collecting scientific information in Russia. Full text is hardly available now.
Dogonadze R.R., Kuznetsov A.M. Kinetics of electrode processes. III. Quantum-mechanical theory. The polar solvent models // Sov. Electrochem. 1971. V. 7. P. 735-742. Russian version: Elektrokhimiya. 1971. V. 7. P. 763-770.
Kuznetsov A.M. Calculating the probability of electron transfer in polar medium // Sov. Electrochem. 1971. V. 7. P. 1028-1030. Russian version: Elektrokhimiya. 1971. V. 7. P. 1067-1069.
Kukhtin R.I., Kuznetsov A.M., Lozhkin B.I., Boguslavskii L.I. Photoelectrochemical reactions at the antracene electrode. III. Kinetics in a medium with variable dielectric constant // Sov. Electrochem. 1972. V. 8. P. 1563-1566. Russian version: Elektrokhimiya. 1972. V. 8. P. 1604-1608. Parts I and II are experimental articles of Boguslavsii et al.
Vorotyntsev M.A., Dogonadze R.R., Kuznetsov A.M. Kinetics of electrochemical processes. IV. Quantum-mechanical theory. Calculation of the probability of transition for nonadiabatic reactions within the harmonic approximation (general relationships) // Sov. Electrochem. 1974. V. 10. P. 658-667. Russian version: Elektrokhimiya. 1974. V. 10. P. 658-667.
Vorotyntsev M.A., Dogonadze R.R., Kuznetsov A.M. Kinetics of electrochemical processes. V. Quantum-mechanical theory. Calculation of the probability of transition for nonadiabatic reactions within the harmonic approximation (entnglement of the quantum and classical degrees of freedom) // Sov. Electrochem. 1974. V. 10. P. 827-834. Russian version: Elektrokhimiya. 1974. V. 10. P. 867-875. Here are the abstracts of two related articles deposited to VINITI in 1976.
Vorotyntsev M.A., Dogonadze R.R., Kuznetsov A.M. Kinetics of electrochemical processes. VI. Quantum-mechanical theory. Role of the interdependent character of the motion of individual atoms in reactions in which polyatomic systems participate // Sov. Electrochem. 1974. V. 10. P. 973-979. Russian version: Elektrokhimiya. 1974. V. 10. P. 1023-1030.
Dogonadze R.R., Kuznetsov A.M. Kinetics of electrochemical processes. VII. Effect of the ionic atmosphere and double layer structure on the elementary act of an electrochemical reaction // Sov. Electrochem. 1975. V. 11. P. 1-6. Russian version: Elektrokhimiya. 1975. V. 11. P. 3-8.
Kuznetsov A.M., Kharkats Yu.I. Semiclassical theory of adiabatic and nonadiabatic electron-transfer bridging reactions // Sov. Electrochem. 1976. V. 12. P. 1170-1176. Russian version: Elektrokhimiya. 1976. V. 12. P. 1277-1283.
German E.D., Dvali V.G., Dogonadze R.R., Kuznetsov A.M. Homogeneous electron transfer processes // Sov. Electrochem. 1976. V. 12. P. 639-643. Russian version: Elektrokhimiya. 1976. V. 12. P. 667-672.