Margarita N. Rodnikova (on the 90th anniversary of her birth)

Information is presented about Margarita Nikolaevna Rodnikova, Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Professor, Russian Federation Honored Scientist, chief researcher of the N.S. Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a well-known specialist in field of fundamental and applied physical chemistry liquids and solutions: basic biographical data, training in chemical Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University, the work in Kurnakov IGIC RAS, PhD and doctoral (chemical sciences) dissertation, authorship of more than 300 scientific papers in scientific journals (a new class of solvents with a spatial grid of hydrogen bonds has been discovered, topological methods for describing the structure of a liquid have been proposed, properties of a spatial grid of hydrogen bonds in liquids and solutions have been investigated, the role of hydrogen bonds mixed grids in biosystems and cryobiology has been revealed), membership in academic councils, participation and organization of Russian and international conferences and seminars, editorial work in scientific journals, work with postgraduates and students, management from 1980 to the present of the monthly Russian Academy of Sciences Seminar (with international participation) on the liquids and solutions structure.