History of Science and Engineering Annotation << Back DMITRY VIKTOROVICH ALEKSEEV – FAMOUS RUSSIAN CHEMIST, PIONEER OF THE PHENOMENON OF HYDROGEN FRAGILITY OF STEELS S.I. Rogozhnikov The article is devoted to the life and work of Dmitry Viktorovich Alekseev, a famous Russian chemist, the discoverer of the phenomenon of hydrogen brittleness of steels, his work in the universities of Tomsk, Moscow, Petrograd, Perm, Tashkent, an internship in Germany with Nobel Prize winners in chemistry F. Haber and V. Nernst. Keywords: The life and work of Dmitry Viktorovich Alekseev, the history of the chemical faculty of Perm State University, the history of the chemical faculty of Tomsk State University, Tomsk Technological Institute. DOI: 10.25791/intstg.10.2023.1446 Pp. 39-46.