Veniamin Grigorievich (Benjamin) Levich (March 30, 1917, Kharkov, Ukraine — January 19, 1987, Englewood, New Jersey, USA)[1] was a physicist, an expert in the field of electrochemical hydrodynamics. His research activities also included gas-phase collision reactions, the quantum mechanics of electron transfer. The Levich Equation describing a current at a rotating disk electrode is named after him.
Professor Levich received many honours during his life, including the Palladium Medal of the American Electrochemical Society in 1973. He was elected a foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences in 1977 and a foreign associate of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 1982. He was also a member of numerous scientific organizations, although on leaving the USSR in 1978 he had to relinquish his Soviet citizenship and, therefore, was expelled from the USSR Academy of Sciences[1].