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Mykola Zelinsky

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Also known as Nikolaj Dmitrievič Zelinsky, Nikolay Dimitrievich Zelinsky, Nikolay Dmitriyevich Zelinsky

Ukranian chemist (1861–1953)

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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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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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