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Vitalii Iosifovich Goldanski (18 June 1923 – 14 January 2001) was a Soviet and Russian physical chemist. He was an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1981, corresponding member since 1962) and the Russian Academy of Education (1992), as well as a foreign member of the American Philosophical Society (1989). He was a laureate of the Lenin Prize (1980) and the State Prize of the Russian Federation (2000).

Biography
He was the grandson of Rabbi Iosif Abramovich Melamed. In 1928 the family moved to Leningrad. He studied at school No. 2 of the Kuybyshev district (now school No. 207). In 1939 he began studying chemistry at Leningrad University. During the war, he joined the student construction battalion, was wounded, and then survived the Siege of Leningrad. He was then evacuated to Kazan where he continued his studies, which he completed in Moscow in 1944. He then commenced postgraduate studies in the Institute of Chemical Physics under Nikolay Semyonov, defending his thesis in 1947.