CHEMIST

Nikolay Semyonov

1896 - 1986

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Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov , sometimes Semenov, Semionov or Semenoff (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Семёнов; 15 April [O.S. 3 April] 1896 – 25 September 1986) was a Soviet physicist and chemist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolay Semyonov has received more than 140,969 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Nikolay Semyonov is the 204th most popular chemist (up from 230th in 2019), the 384th most popular biography from Russia (up from 449th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Russian Chemist.

Nikolay Semyonov is most famous for his development of the first Soviet nuclear bomb.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Nikolay Semyonov ranks 204 out of 602Before him are Max Perutz, John Vane, Hermann Kolbe, Osamu Shimomura, Ignacy Łukasiewicz, and Mario J. Molina. After him are Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Kenichi Fukui, John Fenn, Johan Gottlieb Gahn, Gerhard Herzberg, and Wallace Carothers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Nikolay Semyonov ranks 49Before him are Tina Modotti, Herbert Backe, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Gottlob Berger, Robert S. Mulliken, and Mamie Eisenhower. After him are André Masson, Wallace Carothers, Paulino Alcántara, Friedrich Hund, Léon Theremin, and Kenji Miyazawa. Among people deceased in 1986, Nikolay Semyonov ranks 44Before him are Dean Reed, Coluche, James Cagney, Ye Jianying, Robert S. Mulliken, and Erik Bruhn. After him are Raimundo Orsi, Altiero Spinelli, Ray Milland, Adolfo Celi, Vincente Minnelli, and Juan Rulfo.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolay Semyonov ranks 384 out of 3,761Before him are Aleksandr Karelin (1967), Nikolai Leskov (1831), Basil Fool for Christ (1468), Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1822), Vladimir Kryuchkov (1924), and Nathalie Sarraute (1900). After him are Viktor Tsoi (1962), Leonid Andreyev (1871), Andrei Bely (1880), George Ostrogorsky (1902), Velimir Khlebnikov (1885), and Catherine Pavlovna of Russia (1788).

Among CHEMISTS In Russia

Among chemists born in Russia, Nikolay Semyonov ranks 8Before him are Paul Karrer (1889), Otto Wallach (1847), Ilya Prigogine (1917), Valery Legasov (1936), Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899), and Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863). After him are Vladimir Markovnikov (1838), Alexander Butlerov (1828), Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev (1841), Julia Lermontova (1847), Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (1838), and Constantin Fahlberg (1850).