Alexander Butlerov
Also known as Alexander Mikhaylovich Butlerov
Russian chemist (1828-1886)
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- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,741x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,720x
- ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
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- SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,111x
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Alexander Mikhaylovich Butlerov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Бу́тлеров; 15 September 1828 – 17 August 1886) was a Russian chemist, one of the principal creators of the theory of chemical structure (1857–1861), the first to incorporate double bonds into structural formulas, the discoverer of hexamine (1859), the discoverer of formaldehyde (1859) and the discoverer of the formose reaction (1861). He first proposed the idea of possible tetrahedral arrangement of valence bonds in carbon compounds in 1862.
The crater Butlerov on the Moon is named after him. In 1956 the Academy of Sciences of the USSR established the A. M. Butlerov Prize.