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Residence
  
Russian

Education
  
Odessa University

Role
  
Chemist

Name
  
Nikolay Zelinsky

Nationality
  
Russian


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Born
  
6 February 1861 Tiraspol, Russian Empire (now in Transnistria) (
1861-02-06
)

Institutions
  
University of Moscow, Moscow Institute of Fine Chemical Technologies

Alma mater
  
University of Novorossiysk

Known for
  
Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky halogenation

Notable awards
  
Lenin order 1940, 1945 and 1946 Stalin Prize 1942, 1946 and 1948

Died
  
July 31, 1953, Moscow, Russia

Nikolay Dimitrievich Zelinsky (Никола́й Дми́триевич Зели́нский in Russian) (6 February n.s., 1861 in Tiraspol, Russian Empire – 31 July 1953 in Moscow), Russian and Soviet chemist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of USSR (1929).

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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 is the inventor of the first effective filtering activated charcoal gas mask in the world (1915).

Life

Zelinsky studied at the University of Tiraspol, University of Odessa, and abroad at the University of Leipzig and University of Göttingen with Victor Meyer he received his master and his Ph.D from the University of Novorossiysk in 1888 and 1891. He was appointed professor at the University of Moscow 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 president of the Moscow Society of Naturalists.

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 Zelinskiy Institute of Organic Chemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences is named after him.

References

Nikolay Zelinsky Wikipedia