Araksi Towmassi Babajan

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Araksi Towmassi Babayan ( Russian Аракси Товмасовна Бабаян , Armenian Արաքսի Թովմասի Բաբայան ; born April 22 . Jul / 5. May  1906 greg. In Yerevan ; † 13. February 1993 ibid) was a Russian - Soviet - Armenian chemist and university lecturer .

Life

Babajan studied at the Yerevan State University in the Faculty of Agriculture with a degree in 1929. She then worked at the Yerevan Institute of Veterinary Medicine (until 1958). She completed her further studies at the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute in the Faculty of Chemistry in 1937.

In 1935 Babajan became an employee of the Institute of Chemistry of the Armenian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (since 1957 Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic ). In 1939 she proposed a new method of synthesis of specific acetylene - glycols ago ( Faworski-Babayan reaction ). She investigated the alkaline and thermal splitting of ammonium salts . In 1945 she received her doctorate in chemical sciences and was appointed professor . In 1953 she discovered the catalytic effect of ammonium salts in the alkylation of special acids by haloalkanes .

1942–1955 Babajan headed the Department of Chemistry at the State Medical University of Yerevan . In 1956 she was elected a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic and in 1968 a full member. She was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian Socialist Soviet Republic in the 2nd – 4th Session.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g h i j Armenian National Academy of Sciences: Бабаян Араксия Товмасовна (accessed July 1, 2020).
  2. Торосян, Г .: К 100-летию Аракси Товмасовны Бабаян . In: Chemical Journal of Armenia . tape 59 , no. 2 , 2006, p. 3–5 ( [1] [accessed July 1, 2020]).
  3. a b c d Armenian International Women's Association: Babayan, Araksi Tovmasi (accessed July 1, 2020).