Nikolay Zelinsky
Nikolay Zelinsky | |
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| Николай Зелинский | |
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| Born | Nikolay Dmitriyevich Zelinsky February 6, 1861 |
| Died | July 31, 1953 (aged 92) |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Known for | Hell–Volhard–Zelinsky halogenation |
Nikolay Dmitriyevich Zelinsky (Russian: Николай Дмитриевич Зелинский; 6 February 1861 – 31 July 1953) was a Russian and Soviet chemist. Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1929).
Zelinsky studied at the University of Odessa and at the universities of Leipzig and Göttingen in Germany. Zelinsky was one of the founders of theory on organic catalysis. He was the inventor of the first effective filtering activated charcoal gas mask in the world (1915).[1]
Life
Zelinsky studied at a middle school in Tiraspol, then in Richelieu gymnasium and in Novorossiya University in Odessa, and abroad at the Leipzig University and University of Göttingen with Viktor Meyer. He received his master's and Ph.D. degrees from Novorossiya University in 1888 and 1891. He was appointed professor at the Moscow University in 1893, where worked till his retirement with the exceptions of the years between 1911 and 1917. His main research area was the chemistry of cyclic hydrocarbons.
He was the president of the Moscow Society of Naturalists.[2]
Recognition
The crater Zelinskiy on the Moon is named in his honor.
In 2001, the Central Bank of Transnistria minted a silver coin honoring this native of today's Transnistria, as part of a series of memorable coins called The Outstanding People of Pridnestrovie.[1]
The Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences is named after him.
See also
References
- ^ Kozhevnikov, A.B. (2004). Stalin's great science: the times and adventures of Soviet physicists (illustrated, reprint ed.). Imperial College Press. pp. 10–11. ISBN 978-1-86094-419-2. Retrieved 28 April 2009.
- ^ Weiner, Douglas R. (2002). A little corner of freedom : Russian nature protection from Stalin to Gorbachev. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. p. 125. ISBN 9780520232136.
Further reading
- A. N. Nesmeyanov, A. V. Tophiev, B. A. Kazansky and N. I. Shuikin (1953). "To the memory of academician Nikolai Dmitrievich Zelinsky". Russian Chemical Bulletin. 2 (5): 683–690. doi:10.1007/BF01178843.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - S. F. Birch; Delaby, R.; Birch, S. F. (1954). "Obituary notices: ... Nicholas Dimitrivich Zelinsky, 1861–1952". Journal of the Chemical Society. 2 (5): 4059–4064. doi:10.1039/JR9540004059.
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