The Most Famous

CHEMISTS from Uzbekistan

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This page contains a list of the greatest Uzbekistani Chemists. The pantheon dataset contains 602 Chemists, 1 of which were born in Uzbekistan. This makes Uzbekistan the birth place of the 45th most number of Chemists behind Vietnam, and Sri Lanka.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Uzbekistani Chemists of all time. This list of famous Uzbekistani Chemists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Sabir Yunusov (1909 - 1995)

With an HPI of 45.56, Sabir Yunusov is the most famous Uzbekistani Chemist.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.

Sobir Yunusovich Yunusov (Russian: Сабир Юнусович Юнусов; 18 March 1909 in Tashkent – 29 November 1995 in Tashkent) was a Soviet-Uzbek chemist, known for his research in alkaloid chemistry. In 1971 he was awarded the D.I. Mendeleev Medal for doing so. He founded the Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances under the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR (of Uzbekistan since 1991) in 1956. The institute currently bears his name. He was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (of Russia since 1991) from 1958 until his death. He died and was buried in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He was posthumously awarded the Order of Outstanding Merit.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Uzbekistani chemists born between 1909 and 1909. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Uzbekistani chemists include Sabir Yunusov.

Deceased Uzbekistani Chemists

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