Mikhail Usanovich

Michail Illyich Usanovich (1894—1981) was a Russian/Soviet physical chemist, and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of Kazakh SSR since 1962. He is famous for his generalized acid-base theory.

Michail Usanovich was born to a Jewish doctor's family in Zhytomyr.

After having graduated from Kiev University of Sciences in 1917, he worked in the chemical laboratory of the Academy of Sciences of Ukrainian SSR led by Vladimir Vernadskiy up to 1920. He was an employee and the technologist of the Kiev Polytechnical Institute. He became a professor in three universities: Tomsk University in 1930, Central Asian in 1935, and Kazakh in 1944, where he held an academic chair.