Aleksandr Arbuzov

This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Erminingeldovich and the family name is Arbuzov.

Aleksandr Arbuzov
File:A. E. Arbuzov 1914.jpg Aleksandr Arbuzov
Born	(1877-10-12)October 12, 1877
Died
Institutions	University of Kazan
Alma mater	University of Kazan
Doctoral advisor	Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev
Known for	Michaelis–Arbuzov reaction

Aleksandr Erminingeldovich Arbuzov (12 October 1877 – 22 January 1968) was a Russian Empire and Soviet chemist who discovered the Michaelis–Arbuzov reaction.

A native of Bilyarsk, Arbuzov studied in the Kazan University under Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev. He graduated in 1900 and became professor at the same university in 1911. After World War II he was put in charge of the Soviet Institute of Organic Chemistry.

Arbuzov was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1943.

In addition to his scientific research, Arbuzov also wrote A Brief Sktech of the Development of Organic Chemistry in Russian (1948).