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Nikolai Menshutkin

1842 - 1907

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Nikolai Aleksandrovich Menshutkin (Russian: Николай Александрович Меншуткин; 24 October [O.S. 12 October] 1842 – 5 February [O.S. 22 January] 1907) was a Russian chemist who discovered the process of converting a tertiary amine to a quaternary ammonium salt via the reaction with an alkyl halide, now known as the Menshutkin reaction. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolai Menshutkin is the 532nd most popular chemist (up from 543rd in 2019), the 1,929th most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,192nd in 2019) and the 21st most popular Russian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Nikolai Menshutkin ranks 532 out of 602. Before him are Darleane C. Hoffman, Eugen Baumann, Oswald Schmiedeberg, Robert Jarvik, Marc Delafontaine, and Margaret Oakley Dayhoff. After him are Ida Freund, Friedrich Accum, Aleksandr Arbuzov, Neil Bartlett, Mary L. Good, and Sabir Yunusov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Nikolai Menshutkin ranks 93. Before him are Robert Collett, Christian Lundeberg, Hannibal Sehested, Alphons Czibulka, Calixa Lavallée, and Édouard Louis Trouessart. After him are Agnes Mary Clerke, Pyotr Durnovo, Charles Lapworth, Josef Labor, Mary MacKillop, and Alexander Voeikov. Among people deceased in 1907, Nikolai Menshutkin ranks 91. Before him are Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, Dimitar Petkov, George Sheldon, Lena Rice, Christen Dalsgaard, and Edmonia Lewis. After him are Agnes Mary Clerke, Guillermo Tell Villegas, Maxwell T. Masters, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Mariano Baptista, and Frederic Moore.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Menshutkin ranks 1,929 out of 3,761. Before him are Andrey Zaliznyak (1935), Nikolay Milyutin (1818), Eugen Walaschek (1917), Daniil Medvedev (1996), Tatyana Baramzina (1919), and Max Jakobson (1923). After him are Nestor Kukolnik (1809), Victor Chizhikov (1935), Natalya Krachkovskaya (1938), Boris Kurakin (1676), Otto von Böhtlingk (1815), and Oscar Grégoire (1877).

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Among CHEMISTS In Russia

Among chemists born in Russia, Nikolai Menshutkin ranks 21. Before him are Constantin Fahlberg (1850), Nikolay Beketov (1827), Alexander Nesmeyanov (1899), Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann (1861), Alexey Favorsky (1860), and Nina Andreyeva (1938). After him are Lev Chugaev (1873).

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