Yurii Matros

Yurii Shaevich Matros (Юрий Шаевич Матрос; September 16, 1937 – July 21, 2020) was a Soviet and American scientist in the field of chemical engineering, known for his achievement in the theory and practice of heterogeneous catalytic processes. He is acknowledged as a “Godfather” of realization of catalytic processes in forced unsteady state conditions. Matros developed a catalytic reactor with periodic changes of direction of flow rate in packed bed of catalyst (named in literature as “reverse process” or “Matros Reactor”). This reactor is widely known in scientific and applied literature as an example of an application of developed theory of forced unsteady processes. Yurii Matros possessed a full doctoral degree of science and was a professor.

Life and career Matros was born in Odesa, Ukraine in 1937. As an overachieving student, he graduated from Odesa National Polytechnic University in 1959 with a red diploma (highest academic distinction). After four years of research at this university, while simultaneously working at the Novosibirsk chemical plant, he received his PhD degree in 1964. His science career was developed at the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis

Scientific achievements His achievements have become the basis for a scientific school, which focuses on unsteady state processes in catalysis and which attracts post graduate students and collaboration among scientists from the former Soviet Union and other countries, such as Bulgaria, Hungary, India, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Poland, Germany, China, Italy and the United States. His books were published in Russian, English and Chinese, and they have now become reference books in most chemical engineering university departments across the world. Matros is the organizer and chairman of the traditional International Conference of Unsteady State Process in Catalysis

Industrial Catalysis News, Baltzer science publishers, 1998, USA

Videos Yurii Matros: Unsteady state catalytic processes in industry Conference on Unsteady-State Processes in Catalysis, "USPC-3", St. Petersburg, 1998. Honest Fight. The life and fate of Yurii Matros. 1st episode. Honest Fight. The life and fate of Yurii Matros. 2nd episode.

Obituary (in Russian) Yurii Shaevich Matros Died