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The modern history of research in chemical periodical processes started in 1951 when B. P. Belousov discovered the concentration oscillations between oxidized and reduced forms of cerium in the process of the oxidation of citric acid by bromate. Chapter 4 provides Belousov’s biography and contains an attempt to understand what kind of man he was. By basing of his publications and notes we try to reconstruct the presumptions of Belousov’s discovery proceeding from his research work for Institute of Biophysics of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Chapter 4 provides an extensive use of the recollections of Belousov’s contemporaries and interviews taken by the author. By applying T. Kuhn’s technique of paradigms we want to explain why Belousov’s 1951 and 1955 papers have not been published. We conclude that Kuhn’s paradigms provide us with a partial explanation only. A number of social and psychological factors which are not embraced by T. Kuhn’s technique is essential.
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Pechenkin, A. (2018). The Belousov Reaction. In: The History of Research on Chemical Periodic Processes. SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95108-9_4
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