PROFESSOR Veniamin Levich was dismissed from his post at Moscow University in 1972 as a result of his application for a visa to emigrate to Israel. He had done definitive work in a number of fields including electrochemistry and physicochemical hydrodynamics. A number of Soviet scientists working in related fields were invited to attend a conference in Oxford to celebrate his 60th birthday. All declined. Extensive extracts from a letter explaining the Soviet attitude, and from a reply from Sir Derek Barton, Chairman of the Conference Committee, and Professor D. B. Spalding, Conference Organiser, appear below
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BARTON, D., SPALDING, B. USSR. Nature 268, 95 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1038/268095a0
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