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The world's first specialized Institute of Thermophysics was organized in 1957 at the Novosibirsk Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Academician I.I. Novikov, a recognized specialist in the field of thermodynamics and thermophysical properties of substances, headed the institute. From 1964 to 1986, the Institute was headed by an outstanding thermal physicist, Academician S.S. Kutateladze, who made a significant contribution to such areas of thermophysics and thermal power engineering as the hydrodynamic theory of boiling crises, the theory of similarity of heat transfer processes during physical and chemical transformations and in boundary layers under difficult conditions, and the study of heat transfer and hydrodynamics of liquid metals. In 1994, the Institute of Thermal Physics was named after S.S. Kutateladze. The names of such well-known scientists as Academicians V.E. Nakoryakov, E.P. Volchkov, M.F. Zhukov, A.I. Leontiev, S.V. Alekseenko, R.I. Nigmatulin, A.K. Rebrov. At present, the Institute of Thermal Physics named after S.S. Kutateladze SB RAS, being one of the leading research centers in the theory of heat transfer and physical fluid dynamics, conducts fundamental research in all relevant areas of thermal physics, deals with applied problems of heat and hydropower, energy saving. 
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