Nikolay Zelinsky

Nikolay Zelinsky
220px Nikolay Zelinsky in 1923
Born	(1861-02-06)6 February 1861 Tiraspol, Russian Empire (now in Transnistria)
Died	Moscow, Russia, USSR
Residence	Russian
Nationality	Russian
Institutions	University of Moscow, Moscow Institute of Fine Chemical Technologies
Alma mater	University of Novorossiysk
Known for	Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky halogenation
Notable awards	Lenin order 1940, 1945 and 1946 Stalin Prize 1942, 1946 and 1948

Nikolay Dimitrievich Zelinsky (Никола́й Дми́триевич Зели́нский in Russian) (6 February n.s., 1861 in Tiraspol, Russian Empire – 31 July 1953 in Moscow), Russian and Soviet chemist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of USSR (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 is the inventor of the first effective filtering activated charcoal gas mask in the world (1915).

The crater Zelinskiy on the Moon is named in his honor.

In 2001, the Central Bank of Transnistria minted a silver coin honoring this native of today's Transnistria, as part of a series of memorable coins called The Outstanding People of Pridnestrovie.[1]

Life

Zelinsky studied at the University of Tiraspol, University of Odessa, and abroad at the University of Leipzig and University of Göttingen with Victor Meyer he received his master and his Ph.D from the University of Novorossiysk in 1888 and 1891. He was appointed professor at the University of Moscow in 1893, where worked till his retirement with the exceptions of the years between 1911 and 1917. His main research area was the chemistry of cyclic hydrocarbons.

He was president of the Moscow Society of Naturalists.

The Zelinskiy Institute of Organic Chemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences is named after him.

See also

• Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky halogenation

References

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Academician Zelinsky on a Soviet postage stamp commemorating the centennial of his birth.