Aleksei Chichibabin
Aleksei Chichibabin | |
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Born | Kuzemin, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire | March 17, 1871
Died | August 15, 1945 | (aged 74)
Alma mater | Imperial Moscow University (1892) |
Alekséy Yevgényevich Chichibábin (Russian: Алексей Евгеньевич Чичибабин; 29 March [O.S. 17 March] 1871 – 15 August 1945) was a Soviet Russian organic chemist. His name is also written Alexei Yevgenievich Chichibabin and Alexei Euguenievich Tchitchibabine.[1]
Life
Chichibábin was born at Kuzemin on March 17, 1871. He studied at the
Chichibábin and his wife, Vera Vladmirovna Tchitchibabine, had one child, a daughter who became a chemist.[3] Chichibábin died in 1945 and was buried at the Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery near Paris.[4]
Scientific work
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Chichibábin is associated with the development of several important organic chemical reactions. One is a novel
Chichibábin authored the two-volume Osnovnye nachala organicheskoy khimii (Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry), which first appeared in 1924, a principal university-level chemistry textbooks in the Soviet Union that went through 7 Russian editions and was translated into Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, French, Spanish, English, and Chinese.[5] An edition of the book was dedicated to Chichibábin's daughter, Natacha, who was killed by an oleum explosion in a chemical production factory in 1930.[2]
Chichibábin won the Lenin Prize in 1926.
References
- ^ Andraos, J., Named Organic Reactions (A – D)
- ^ ISBN 3642282199, see [1], accessed 12 February 2015.
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- ^ A.N. Kost, 2008, "Alexei Yevgenievich Chichibabin," in the Complete Dictionary of Scientific BiographyNew York:Charles Scribner's Sons, see [2], accessed 12 February 2015.
Bibliography
- Imperial Moscow University: 1755-1917: encyclopedic dictionary. Moscow: Russian political encyclopedia (ROSSPEN). 2010. pp. 824–825. )