title: B P Belousov and his reaction.
abstract: The generation to which Boris Pavlovich Belousov (1893-1976) belonged has almost disappeared. The archives hold only a few documents about his life and basically secret research. This article is a brief biography of Belousov and attempts to reconstruct what lay behind his famous discovery of the oscillatory homogeneous chemical reaction named after him.
authors.affiliation: Institute of the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Staropanskii per., 1/5, 103012 Moscow, Russia. a_pechenk@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pechenkin
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000266:history*; D002563:Cerium / Q000737:chemistry; D019343:Citric Acid / Q000737:chemistry; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008956:Models, Chemical; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D014116:Toxicology / Q000266:history*
chemical_list: D019343:Citric Acid; D002563:Cerium