Nikolay Zelinsky

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Nikolay Zelinsky
Nikolay Zelinsky
Born	February 6, 1861(1861-02-06) Tiraspol, Russia now Moldova
Died	July 31, 1953 (aged 92) Moscow, Russia
Residence	Russian
Nationality	Russian
Institutions	University of Moscow
Alma mater	University of Novorossisk
Known for	Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky halogenation
Notable awards	Lenin order 1940, 1945 and 1946 State Stalin Prize 1942, 1946 and 1948

Nikolay Dimitrievich Zelinsky (Зелинский, Николай Дмитриевич in Russian) (February 6 n.s., 1861, Tiraspol, the largest city of Transnistria - July 31, 1953, Moscow), Russian 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 coal gas mask in the world (1915).

Zelinskiy crater 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]

[edit] 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 Novorossisk 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 chemstry of cyclic hydrocarbons.

[edit] See also

• Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky halogenation

[edit] References

• A. N. Nesmeyanov, A. V. Tophiev, B. A. Kazansky and N. I. Shuikin (1953). "To the memory of academician Nikolai Dmitrievich Zelinsky". Russian Chemical Bulletin 2 (5): 683-690. doi:10.1007/BF01178843. 

• S. F. Birch (1954). "Obituary notices: ... Nicholas Dimitrivich Zelinsky, 1861–1952". Journal of the Chemical Society 2 (5): 4059 - 4064. doi:10.1039/JR9540004059.