A major international scientific conference will be held at Oxford University July II to mark the 60th birthday of Prof. Benjamin Levich, who has been trying for five years to emigrate to Israel from the Soviet Union. Scientists from more than a dozen Western countries are expected to attend the three-day conference on physical chemistry and hydrodynamics, the field in which Levich has earned worldwide repute. It is understood that invitations are also being sent to Levich and other Soviet scientists. So far, 21 lectures have been organized and at least 58 papers will be submitted. The chairman of the conference will be Sir Derek Barton, Fellow of the Royal Society. Levich, a corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and vice-president of the International Electro-Chemical Society, has been stripped of his posts.
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