CHEMIST

Alexander Butlerov

1828 - 1886

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Alexander Mikhaylovich Butlerov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Бу́тлеров; 15 September 1828 – 17 August 1886) was a Russian chemist, one of the principal creators of the theory of chemical structure (1857–1861), the first to incorporate double bonds into structural formulas, the discoverer of hexamine (1859), the discoverer of formaldehyde (1859) and the discoverer of the formose reaction (1861). He first proposed the idea of possible tetrahedral arrangement of valence bonds in carbon compounds in 1862. The crater Butlerov on the Moon is named after him. In 1956 the Academy of Sciences of the USSR established the A. M. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Butlerov has received more than 70,062 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Alexander Butlerov is the 291st most popular chemist (down from 263rd in 2019), the 535th most popular biography from Russia (down from 500th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Russian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Alexander Butlerov ranks 291 out of 602Before him are Thomas Midgley Jr., Rasmus Bartholin, John Pople, John Polanyi, Erwin Chargaff, and Ben Feringa. After him are Carl Gustaf Mosander, Richard R. Schrock, C. H. D. Buys Ballot, André-Louis Debierne, Anselme Payen, and Smithson Tennant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1828, Alexander Butlerov ranks 21Before him are Albert of Saxony, John Langdon Down, Edmond François Valentin About, Paul Gachet, Joseph Swan, and Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia. After him are Iosif Gurko, Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, Friedrich Albert Lange, Prince Adalbert of Bavaria, Charles de Freycinet, and Dora d'Istria. Among people deceased in 1886, Alexander Butlerov ranks 13Before him are John Deere, Amilcare Ponchielli, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, Alexander Ostrovsky, Ilya Ulyanov, and Pierre-Jules Hetzel. After him are Lydia Koidula, Karl von Piloty, Marco Minghetti, Eliza Lynch, Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust, and Prince Louis, Count of Trani.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Butlerov ranks 535 out of 3,761Before him are Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia (1869), Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1866), Sergey Biryuzov (1904), Werner Ostendorff (1903), Alexander Schmorell (1917), and Andrei Karlov (1954). After him are Konstantin Makovsky (1839), Mikhail Mil (1909), Vyacheslav Tikhonov (1928), Igor Netto (1930), Tode Mongke (1282), and Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906).

Among CHEMISTS In Russia

Among chemists born in Russia, Alexander Butlerov ranks 10Before him are Ilya Prigogine (1917), Valery Legasov (1936), Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899), Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863), Nikolay Semyonov (1896), and Vladimir Markovnikov (1838). After him are Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev (1841), Julia Lermontova (1847), Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (1838), Constantin Fahlberg (1850), Vera Yevstafievna Popova (1867), and Nikolay Beketov (1827).