Nikolai Dmitrievich Selinsky
Nikolay Zelinsky ( Russian Николай Дмитриевич Зелинский , scientific. Transliteration Nikolaj Dmitrievič Zelinskij ; January 25 * . Jul / 6. February 1861 greg. In Tiraspol , Kherson Gubernia , Russian Empire , † 31 July 1953 in Moscow ) was a Russian chemist .
Selinski studied at the New Russian University in Odessa and at the universities of Leipzig and Göttingen in Germany . He received his doctorate in Odessa and was then Professor of Organic and Analytical Chemistry at Moscow University . In 1911 he resigned in protest against the education policy of the tsarist government (including with regard to women's studies) and became director of a state laboratory in Saint Petersburg . In 1915 he invented the world's first effective activated carbon gas mask. After the revolution in 1917 he was again a professor in Moscow.
He was one of the founders of the theory of organic catalysis and was involved in the development of the petrochemical industry and synthetic rubber. From 1929 he was a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . He received the Lenin Prize (1934), the Stalin Prize three times (1942, 1946, 1948), the Order of Lenin four times and the title of Hero of Socialist Labor .
The Zelinskiy crater on the moon was named after him.
See also
literature
- Valentin Janin and others: Otetschestwennaja istorija: istorija Rossii s drewneischich wremen do 1917 goda: Tom 2 . Bolschaja Rossijskaja enziklopedija, Moscow 1996, ISBN 5-85270-049-5 , pp. 243-244. (Russian)
- Winfried Pötsch: Nikolaj Dmietrievic Zelinskij, in: Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 465f
Web links
- Literature by and about Nikolai Dmitrijewitsch Selinski in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Selinsky, Nikolai Dmitrievich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zelinski; Zelinskiy; Зелинский, Николай Дмитриевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tiraspol , Cherson Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 31, 1953 |
| Place of death | Moscow , Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic , Soviet Union |