The Most Famous
CHEMISTS from Moldova
This page contains a list of the greatest Moldovan Chemists. The pantheon dataset contains 602 Chemists, 1 of which were born in Moldova. This makes Moldova the birth place of the 40th most number of Chemists behind Taiwan, and U.S. Virgin Islands.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Moldovan Chemists of all time. This list of famous Moldovan Chemists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Nikolay Zelinsky (1861 - 1953)
With an HPI of 61.00, Nikolay Zelinsky is the most famous Moldovan Chemist. His biography has been translated into 30 different languages on wikipedia.
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 and educator. A professor at Moscow University from 1893, 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).
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Moldovan chemists born between 1861 and 1861. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Moldovan chemists include Nikolay Zelinsky.
