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Nikolay Semyonov

1896 - 1986

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Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov , sometimes Semenov, Semionov or Semenoff (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Семёнов; 15 April [O.S. 3 April] 1896 – 25 September 1986) was a Soviet physicist and chemist. Semyonov was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the mechanism of chemical transformation. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolay Semyonov is the 212th most popular chemist (down from 204th in 2019), the 287th most popular biography from Russia (up from 384th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Russian Chemist.

Nikolay Semyonov is most famous for his development of the first Soviet nuclear bomb.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Nikolay Semyonov ranks 212 out of 602. Before him are Georg Ernst Stahl, Karl Barry Sharpless, Alan MacDiarmid, James Dewar, Roald Hoffmann, and Johann Wilhelm Ritter. After him are Paul Lauterbur, Kenichi Fukui, Geoffrey Wilkinson, Sophia Brahe, Leo Baekeland, and Osamu Shimomura.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Nikolay Semyonov ranks 44. Before him are Wallace Carothers, Anastasio Somoza García, Lewis Strauss, John Dos Passos, Italo Balbo, and Nobusuke Kishi. After him are Paulino Alcántara, Rolf Maximilian Sievert, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Herbert Backe, Helen of Greece and Denmark, and Tina Modotti. Among people deceased in 1986, Nikolay Semyonov ranks 38. Before him are Benny Goodman, Stanley Rous, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Samora Machel, Roy Cohn, and L. Ron Hubbard. After him are James Cagney, Ray Milland, Megumu Tamura, Lê Duẩn, Vincente Minnelli, and Juan Rulfo.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolay Semyonov ranks 287 out of 3,761. Before him are Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia (1827), Pitirim Sorokin (1889), Vasily Vereshchagin (1842), Fyodor Tolbukhin (1894), Igor Smirnov (1941), and Ivan Silayev (1930). After him are Oleg Antonov (1906), Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855), Arthur Adamov (1908), Alexandre Koyré (1892), Boris Shaposhnikov (1882), and Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843).

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Among CHEMISTS In Russia

Among chemists born in Russia, Nikolay Semyonov ranks 8. Before him are Otto Wallach (1847), Paul Karrer (1889), Ilya Prigogine (1917), Valery Legasov (1936), Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863), and Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899). After him are Vladimir Markovnikov (1838), Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev (1841), Alexander Butlerov (1828), Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (1838), Vera Yevstafievna Popova (1867), and Julia Lermontova (1847).

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