History of Science and Engineering Annotation << Back Konstantin Vasiljevich Chmutov O.G. Larionov, L.D. Beljakova Brief biographical facts are given. K.V. Chmutov carried out investigations on the phenomena of gas and vapor sorption on solid adsorbents, diffusion kinetics in polymer solutions and melts, adsorption from solution in liquid media, problems of sorption and ion-exchange chromatography. In 1950 he organized and headed a laboratory of chromatography in the Institute. Key words: adsorption; diffusion kinetics; chromatography. E-mail: kolom@phyche.ac.ru