Veniamin Grigorievich (Benjamin) Levich (Russian: Вениами́н Григо́рьевич Ле́вич; 30 March 1917 – 19 January 1987[1]) was a Soviet dissident[2] who was an internationally prominent physical chemist, electrochemist, and founder of the discipline of physico-chemical hydrodynamics.

His landmark textbook Physicochemical Hydrodynamics is widely considered his most important contribution to science.

His research activities also included gas-phase collision reactions, electrochemistry, and the quantum mechanics of electron transfer.

Levich received many honors during his life, including the Olin Palladium Award of The Electrochemical Society in 1973.

[6] His son Eugene V. (Yevgeny) Levich also became a physicist, leaving the Soviet Union in 1975 and raising support for other family members.