Alexei Yevgrafovich Favorskii

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Alexei Yevgrafovich Favorskii
Alexei Yevgrafovich Favorskii
Born	February 20, 1850(1850-02-20) Pavlovo, in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia
Died	August 8, 1945 (aged 74) Leningrad, Russia
Alma mater	University of Moscow , University of Saint Petersburg
Doctoral advisor	Aleksandr Butlerov
Doctoral students	Sergei Vasiljevich Lebedev, Vladimir Ipatieff
Known for	Favorskii rearrangement, Favorskii reaction

Alexei Yevgrafovich Favorskii (Russian: Алексей Евграфович Фаворский; Pavlovo, in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, 20 February [O.S. 3 March] 1860; Leningrad 8 August 1945) was a Soviet/Russian chemist. His name is also written Alexei Jewgrafowitsch Faworski and Alexey Evgrafovich Favorsky

[edit] Life

Favorskii studied chemistry at the imperial University of Saint Petersburg from 1878 to 1882. He joined Alexander Butlerov's laboratory for several years, and in 1891 became a lecturer. In 1895 Favorksii received his PhD and became professor for technical chemistry. His discovery of the Favorskii rearrangement in 1894 and the Favorskii reaction between 1900 and 1905 are connected to his name. He worked at the new inorganics department from 1897, and served as its director from 1934 to 1937. For his improvement of the production of synthetic rubber, Favorskii was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1941.

Favorskii died in 1945 and was buried at the Volkovskoe Orthodox cemetery

[edit] Further reading

• Biography (St. Petersburg Encyclopedia)
• Favorskii, A. E. (1894). "". J. Russ. Phys.-Chem. Soc. 26: 559. 
• Lewis, David E. (1994). "The University of Kazan - Provincial Cradle of Russian Organic Chemistry, Part II: Aleksandr Zaitsev and his Students". Journal of Chemical Education 71: 93 – 97. (Favorskii's academic lineage)
• Shostakovskii, M. F. (1960). "The Influence of the Work of A. E. Favorskii on the Development of the Chemistry of High Molecular Compounds (Centenary of his Birth)". Russian Chemical Bulletin 9: 723 – 730.