Ivan Lyudwigowitsch Knunjanz

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Ivan Ljudwigowitsch Knunjanz ( Russian Иван Людвигович Кнунянц , May 22nd . Jul / 4. June  1906 greg. In Shusha , Karabakh , † 21st December 1990 in Moscow ) was a Soviet chemist Armenian descent who invented nylon-6.

He studied with Alexei Yevgenyevich Chichibabin at the Moscow State Technical University , where he graduated in 1928.

He founded a school for fluorocarbons chemistry. He was one of the key developers of the Soviet chemical weapons program and developed drugs for cancer chemotherapy.

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