Nikolay Zelinsky

Nikolay Zelinsky
Nikolay Zelinsky
Николай Зелинский
	Zelinsky in 1941
Born	Nikolay Dmitriyevich Zelinsky; 6 February 1861; Tiraspol, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	31 July 1953 (aged 92); Moscow, Soviet Union
Nationality	Russian
Known for	Hell–Volhard–Zelinsky halogenation

Nikolay Dmitriyevich Zelinsky (Russian: Николай Дмитриевич Зелинский; Ukrainian: Микола Дмитрович Зелінський, romanized: Mykola Dmytrovich Zelinskyy; 6 February 1861 – 31 July 1953) was a Russian and Soviet chemist of Ukrainian origin. 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).^[1]

^ Kozhevnikov, A.B. (2004). Stalin's great science: the times and adventures of Soviet physicists (illustrated, reprint ed.). Imperial College Press. pp. 10–11. ISBN 978-1-86094-419-2. Retrieved 28 April 2009.

[1] Kozhevnikov, A.B. (2004). Stalin's great science: the times and adventures of Soviet physicists (illustrated, reprint ed.). Imperial College Press. pp. 10–11. ISBN 978-1-86094-419-2. Retrieved 28 April 2009.

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