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Nikolay Zelinsky

1861 - 1953

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolay Zelinsky is the 383rd most popular chemist (down from 359th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Moldova (down from 23rd in 2019) and the most popular Moldovan Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Nikolay Zelinsky ranks 383 out of 602. Before him are Vera Yevstafievna Popova, Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, Jacques Bergier, Hermann von Fehling, Arthur Aikin, and Franz Joseph Emil Fischer. After him are Agnes Pockels, Joseph Achille Le Bel, Edward Calvin Kendall, Isabella Karle, Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, and George Sarton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Nikolay Zelinsky ranks 68. Before him are Meir Dizengoff, Henri Mathias Berthelot, Elin Danielson-Gambogi, Richard Sears, Hermann Muthesius, and Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke. After him are Zinaida Yusupova, Vazha-Pshavela, Eduard, Duke of Anhalt, Emil Wiechert, Madan Mohan Malaviya, and Kurt Hensel. Among people deceased in 1953, Nikolay Zelinsky ranks 74. Before him are Boris Kidrič, Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu, Iuliu Maniu, Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, Holger Pedersen, and James Finlayson. After him are Vsevolod Merkulov, Vydūnas, Helene Mayer, Xu Beihong, Vladimir Dekanozov, and Jorge Negrete.

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In Moldova

Among people born in Moldova, Nikolay Zelinsky ranks 26 out of 107. Before him are Jerzy Neyman (1894), Lev Berg (1876), Meir Dizengoff (1861), Eugenio Coșeriu (1921), Vladimir Albitsky (1891), and Lia Manoliu (1932). After him are Mihai Ghimpu (1951), Grigory Kotovsky (1881), Gary Bertini (1927), Anastasia Golovina (1850), Svetlana Toma (1947), and Paul Goma (1935).

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Among chemists born in Moldova, Nikolay Zelinsky ranks 1. 

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