Nikolay Zelinsky
Russian chemist (1861–1953)
Died aged 92AquariusRussian Empire
Biography
Mykola Dmytrovich Zelinskyy (Russian: Николай Дмитриевич Зелинский; Ukrainian: Микола Дмитрович Зелінський, romanized: Mykola Dmytrovich Zelinskyy; 6 February [O.S. 25 January] 1861 – 31 July 1953) was a Ukrainian and Soviet chemist and educator. He was a professor at Moscow University from 1893 and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1929).
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 was the inventor of the first effective filtering activated charcoal gas mask in the world (1915).
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Career highlights
Employers / organisations
- Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Odesa University
- Imperial Moscow University
- Imperial Novorossiia University
Awards & honours (7)
- State Stalin Prize, 1st degree
- Hero of Socialist Labour
- Order of Lenin
- "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"
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