The department was founded in 1944. Until 1948 the research was carried out in the laboratories of the Institute of Chemical Physics of USSR Academy of Sciences. The first head of the department was the Noble Prize laureate, Academician N.N. Semyonov. Since 1988 the department has been headed by RAS member, Professor Anatoly Leonidovich Buchachenko . Tel: 939-13-16 . ... Laboratory of Chemical Kinetics . ... Tel/fax: 939-18-14 . Е-mail: melnikov@excite.chem.msu.ru . ...