Mykola Zelinsky
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Ukranian chemist (1861–1953)
Key facts
- Born
- Nikolay Dmitriyevich Zelinsky , ( 1861-02-06 ) 6 February 1861, Tiraspol , Kherson Governorate , Russian Empire
- Died
- 31 July 1953 (1953-07-31) (aged 92), Moscow , Soviet Union
- Known for
- Zelinsky–Kummant gas mask , Hell–Volhard–Zelinsky halogenation
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Nikolai
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic
- Place of birth
- Tiraspol
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Field of work
- catalysis
- Image
- Николай Дмитриевич Зелинский.jpg
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- place of burial
- Novodevichy Cemetery
- Commons category
- Nikolay Zelinsky
- date of birth
- 1861-01-25
- date of death
- 1953-07-31
- member of
- Russian Academy of Sciences
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Encyclopedic overview
Nikolay Dmitriyevich Zelinsky (Russian: Николай Дмитриевич Зелинский; Ukrainian: Микола Дмитрович Зелінський, romanized: Mykola Dmytrovich Zelinskyy; 6 February [O.S. 25 January] 1861 – 31 July 1953) was a Russian and Soviet chemist and educator. He was a professor at Moscow University from 1893 and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (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 was the inventor of the first effective filtering activated charcoal gas mask in the world (1915).
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