CHEMIST

Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky

1863 - 1944

Photo of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky

Icon of person Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky

Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Прокудин-Горский, IPA: [sʲɪrˈɡʲej mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ prɐˈkudʲɪn ˈɡorskʲɪj] ; August 30 [O.S. August 18] 1863 – September 27, 1944) was a Russian chemist and photographer. He is best known for his pioneering work in colour photography and his effort to document early 20th-century Russia. Using a railway-car darkroom provided by Emperor Nicholas II, Prokudin-Gorsky travelled the Russian Empire from around 1909 to 1915 using his three-image colour photography to record its many aspects. While some of his negatives were lost, the majority ended up in the US Library of Congress after his death. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky is the 178th most popular chemist (down from 134th in 2019), the 216th most popular biography from Russia (up from 253rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Russian Chemist.

Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky was a Russian chemist and photographer who is most famous for his color photographs of Russia in the early 1900s.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky by language

Loading...

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky ranks 178 out of 602. Before him are Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, Akira Suzuki, William Standish Knowles, Alan J. Heeger, Max Perutz, and Robert Curl. After him are Felix Hoffmann, Peter J. Ratcliffe, Marcellin Berthelot, Ernest Solvay, Charles Adolphe Wurtz, and Fritz Albert Lipmann.

Most Popular Chemists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky ranks 24. Before him are Austen Chamberlain, Gaston Doumergue, Wilhelm Marx, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Alexandre Yersin, and Max Wolf. After him are Werner Sombart, Vladimir Vernadsky, Reginald Innes Pocock, George Santayana, Leo Baekeland, and Essad Pasha Toptani. Among people deceased in 1944, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky ranks 44. Before him are Wang Jingwei, Erich Hoepner, Antanas Smetona, Abbas II of Egypt, Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, and Louis Renault. After him are Gustav Bauer, Glenn Miller, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Mohammed Alim Khan, Werner von Haeften, and Giovanni Gentile.

Others Born in 1863

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1944

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky ranks 216 out of 3,761. Before him are Aleksandr Ulyanov (1866), Alexander Friedmann (1888), Sabina Spielrein (1885), Ivan Kramskoi (1837), Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853), and Nikolai Vavilov (1887). After him are Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839), Vasily Blokhin (1895), Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899), Johannes Blaskowitz (1883), Vasily I of Moscow (1371), and Alexei Navalny (1976).

Others born in Russia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among CHEMISTS In Russia

Among chemists born in Russia, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky ranks 6. Before him are Dmitri Mendeleev (1834), Otto Wallach (1847), Paul Karrer (1889), Ilya Prigogine (1917), and Valery Legasov (1936). After him are Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899), Nikolay Semyonov (1896), Vladimir Markovnikov (1838), Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev (1841), Alexander Butlerov (1828), and Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (1838).

Russian born Chemists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous