Biography

            Anton G. NAUMOVETS was born in the village of Rudka near Pinsk (now in Brest Region, Belarus, at that time in Poland), on 2 January 1936. He graduated from Kiev T. Shevchenko State University in 1957 with a first-class diploma in Radiophysics. His further scientific activity proceeded within the Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU) in Kiev. He received there his Ph. D. (Cand. Sci.) degree in 1964 and Dr. hab. degree in 1973. In 1981-2013, he has been holding the post of the Head of the Department of Physical Electronics in the Institute of Physics. Now he holds there the post of Head Scientist In parallel, during 1977-1978 and 1988-2002, A.G. NAUMOVETS was Professor of Physics in Kiev National University.

            In 1983, Prof. A.G. NAUMOVETS was elected Academician Vice-Secretary of the Department of Physics and Astronomy of NASU, and in 1998-2004, he was the Academician Secretary of this Department. In the years 2004-2020,, he was a Vice-President of NASU. At present, he is a member of the NASU Presidium.

            Prof. A.G. NAUMOVETS is the winner of the State Prize of the USSR (1988), the State Prize of Ukraine (1997), V.I. Vernadsky Prize of the Foundation "Ukraine - 21^st Century" (2003), and N.N. Bogolyubov Prize of NASU (2004).

            The scientific activity of Prof. A.G. NAUMOVETS is concentrated on surface physics, electron emission phenomena and nanoelectronics. He is author of above 250 scientific publications, including a few monographs, among them the book “Two-Dimensional Crystals” by I.Lyuksyutov, A.G.Naumovets and V.L.Pokrovsky (Academic Press, Boston, USA, 1992, 421 pp). His review articles and texts of his invited lectures presented at international conferences were published in many journals, collected books and conference proceedings (see below).

Main scientific results of Prof. A.G. NAUMOVETS

• Discovery of the fact that the direction of the surface drift of adsorbed atoms and molecules in an inhomogeneous electric field depends on mutual orientation of the electric field and the dipole moment of adsorbed particle (V.M. Gavrilyuk, A.G. Naumovets, Sov. Phys. Solid State, 5 (1963) 2043; E.V. Klimenko, A.G. Naumovets, Sov. Phys. Solid State, 13 (1971) 25; 15 (1974) 2181. A review: A.G. Naumovets, Yu.S. Vedula, Surf. Sci. Reports, 4 (1985) 365).
• First observations of the structure of submonolayer adsorbed films at low temperatures which discovered long-period two-dimensional lattices and demonstrated the existense of long-range lateral interactions in adsorbed layers (V.K. Medvedev, A.G. Naumovets, A.G. Fedorus, Sov. Phys. Solid State, 12 (1970) 301. A review: A.G. Naumovets, Surface Sci. 299/300 (1994) 706).
• Experimental confirmation of the existence of long-range lateral interaction of adsorbed particles effected via the electron gas of the substrate (Yu.S. Vedula, V.V. Gonchar, A.G. Naumovets, A.G. Fedorus, Sov. Phys. Solid State, 19 (1977) 1505).
• First observation of two-dimensional condensation (first-order phase transition) in the adsorbed layers with dominating repulsive interaction (V.K. Medvedev, A.G. Naumovets, A.G. Fedorus, Sov. Phys. Solid State, 12 (1970) 301).
• The controversial issue (standing for 40 years since Irving Langmuir's classic work with Cs-W system) on the relation between the work function minimum and degree of surface coverage by a metal adsorbate was resolved in a parallel study of the work function variation and the atomic structure of Na and Cs adlayers on the W (110) surface. The experimental proof was given that the work function minimum corresponds to a submonolayer coverage (V.K. Medvedev, A.G. Naumovets, A.G. Fedorus, Sov. Phys. Solid State, 12 (1970) 301; A.G. Naumovets, A.G. Fedorus, Surface Science, 21 (1970) 426).
• The first observation of a rotational phase transition in incommensurate adsorbed layers (A.G. Naumovets, A.G. Fedorus, Surface Science, 21 (1970) 426).
• Experimental demonstration of the distinct character of order-disorder transitions in commensurate and incommensurate adlayers which evidences a peculiar character of order in two-dimensional systems (A.G. Naumovets, A.G. Fedorus, Sov. Phys. JETP, 46 (1977) 575).
• An experimental evidence that the work function of covered surfaces depends on short-range order rather than on long-range order in the adsorbed layer (A.G. Naumovets, A.G. Fedorus, Surface Science, 93 (1980) L98)
• First observations of the multiphase character of surface diffusion in adsorbed layers (a review: A.G. Naumovets, Yu.S. Vedula, Surf. Sci. Reports, 4 (1985) 365).
• Experimental substantiation of the soliton mechanism of surface diffusion in the region of the commensurate-incommensurate phase transition (a review: A.G. Naumovets, Yu.S. Vedula, Surf. Sci. Reports, 4 (1985) 365)
• Technology of preparation of nanoisland metal films with a regular (chain-like) structure (A review: R.D.Fedorovich, A.G. Naumovets, P.M. Tomchuk, Physics Reports 328 (2000) 73).
• Discovery of the phenomenon of electron-stimulated surface diffusion and determination of its major mechanisms (a review: A.G. Fedorus, E.V. Klimenko, A.G. Naumovets, E.M. Zasimovich, I.N. Zasimovich, Nucl. Instr. Methods, B 101 (1995) 207).
• Introduction of low-work-function substrates into scanning tunneling microscopy to facilitate the imaging of large organic molecules (A.A. Marchenko, V.V. Cherepanov, Z.I. Kazantseva, D.T. Tarashchenko, A.G. Naumovets, Surface Science, 416 (1998) 460).
• Investigation, on the example of lithium niobate, of the changes of surface elemental composition of multicomponent polar compounds caused by thermal evaporation and external electric field (A.Ye. Lushkin, V.B. Nazarenko, K.N. Pilipchak, V.F. Shnyukov, A.G. Naumovets, J. Phys D: Applied Physics, 32 (1999) 9).
• The first experimental observation of a two-dimensional (surface) glass state in a metal-on-metal system (A.G. Fedorus, V. Koval, A.G. Naumovets, H. Pfnuer, European Phys. Journal, B24 (2001) 395).
• Experimental evidence for the stable low-macroscopic-field electron emission from piezoelectric thin films (A.A. Dadykin, A.G. Naumovets, Journal of Materials Science, A 353 (2003) 12).
• Revealing of similarities between the atomistic processes which occur in adsorbed layers during surface diffusion and in lubricant nanolayers during their friction (a review: O.M. Braun and A.G. Naumovets, Surf. Sci. Reports, 60 (2006) 79).
• Consideration of lateral interaction of adsorbed atoms in their surface diffusion;   a new method of processing the experimental concentration profiles, recorded during diffusion, which is based on error-function expansion and allows convenient extraction of the concentration dependence of diffusivity; Naumovets A.G.,– Physica A – 2005, vol. 357, p. 189–215; A.G. Nikitin, S.V. Spichak, Yu.S. Vedula, A.G. Naumovets, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 42 (2009) 055301 (1-12); Gaididei Yu.B., Loktev V.M., Naumovets A.G., Zagorodny A.G. – Condensed Matter Physics. – 2013, vol. 16, p. 1–14.
• Naumovets A.G. Adsorption of Alkali and Other Electropositive Metals – a Review in the  Encyclopedia “Surface and Interface Science”, VCH Verlag, Germany). 5, ed. by K. Wandelt (Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2015) p. 157–206.
• Proposals concerning employment of  nanoparticles in medicine - Buchelnikov A., Cherepanov V., Chernii S.V., Dandekar T., Drobot L., Evstigneev M., Frohme M., Grebinyk A., Grebinyk S., Grynyuk I., Horak I., Kovalska V.B., Kyzyma O., Litsis O., Losytskyy M.Yu., Marchenko A.,  Matyshevska O., Naumovets A., Prylutska S., Prylutskyy Yu., Ritter U., Senenko A., Skaterna T., Tverdokhleb N.,  Varzatskii O.A., Yarmoluk S.M.,  Yashchuk V., J. Mol. Recognition –2017, v. 30, No. 8, p. 1–10; DOI 10.1002/jmr.e262; Archives of Toxicology.– 2019, https://doi.org./10.1007/s00204-019-02441-6.; Pharmaceutics. – 2019, vol. 11, 586; doi:10.3390/ pharmaceutics11110586.

• The phenomenon of mesoscopic self-ordering was observed in oxygen doped cerium (O-Ce) films adsorbed on Mo(112). This may be essential for development of catalysts using the rear-earth metals. - Afanasieva T.V., Fedorus A.G., Goriachko A.M., Naumovets A.G., Neporozhnii I.N., Rumiantsev D.V. Surface Sci.–https://doi.org/10.1016/j.susc.2020.121766

Rewards of A.G.Naumovets

Ukrainian. Four Orders of Yaroslav the Wise (2003--2020); State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology (1998); The title "Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine" (1995); Jubilee medal "25 years of independence of Ukraine" (2016).  the N.N.Bogolyubov Prize of the NASU (2004). The V.I. Vernadsky Gold Medal was awarded in 2020 by the NASU to A.G.Naumovets together with Anton Zeilinger from Austria (one of the Physics Nobelists 2022). The title of the Honorary Doctor was awarded to A.G.Naumovets by the National Kiev T. Shevchenko University (2009) and by the National Kharkov V.N.Karazin University (2014), the  Honoured Coworker by the Poltava Yu.Kondratyuk Polytechnical University (2011).

International recognitions:  A.G.Naumovets received the State Prize of the USSR (1988); the French Officer Order of Academic Palmes (2012); the UNESCO Medal for contribution to nanoscience and nanotechnologies (2016). He is the Fellow of the Institute of Physics of the United Kingdom (2004); Honorary Professor of the Institute for Low Temperatures and Structural Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Wroclaw (2015); was conferred the Gold Medal from the NAS of Belarus (2018). Received the Professor grant from the George Soros Foundation (USA) in 1991. Elected as a Councellor from Ukraine to the International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique and Applications (IUVSTA) in 1992. Invited as the Consultant to the Shenzhen Huauhan Biotechnology Co., Ltd from 2019 to 2029 (China).

In different years, A.G. NAUMOVETS was a member of the Internatonal Advisory Boards of Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics (UK), Physics of Low-Dimensional Structures (Russia), Low-Temperature Physics (Ukraine), Surface Science (USA) and Progress in Surface Science (USA). Since 1972, he is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Ukrainian Journal of Physics and, in parallel, since 2010, of the journal Reports of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.