Background
NESMEYANOV, Aleksandr was born in 1899 in Moscow.
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Aleksandr Nikolaevich NESMEYANOV
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1922 graduated Physico-Mathematical Faculty, Moscow University. 1924 completed postgrad, course, Moscow University.
Career
Professor 1934; Doctor of Chemical Science since 1934. Full member since 1943 and Presidium member since 1946, USSR Academy of Science. Director, Institute of Elemental-Organic Compounds, USSR Academy of Science, since 1939.
Chairman, Council for Coordinating the Activities of Republic Academy of Sciences and Institutions of the USSR Academy of Science, since 1959. Chairman, Committee Lenin Prizes for Science and Technology, USSR Council of Ministers, since 1947-1961. 1930 instigated establishment of Laboratory of Organic Chemistry at Moscow Institute of Fertilizers, Insecticides and Fungicides.
1935 instigated establishment of Laboratory of Organometallic Compounds at Moscow University and at Moscow Institute of Organic Chemistry. 1935 founded Institute of Science Information, USSR Academy of Science. 1954 founded Institute of Elemental-Organic Compounds.
1945 attended Congress of French Association, for the Development of Science. 1947 attended 11th International Chemical Congress in London. 1949 attended 1st National Congress of ItalyUSSR Society in Rome.
1935-1938 full member, Institute of Chemistry, Moscow University. 1939-1943 corresponding member, USSR Academy of Science. 1950 member, Soviet Committee the Defense of Peace.
1950 member, World Peace Council. 1959 member, Editor Publ. Council, USSR Academy of Science.
Deputy, USSR Supreme Soviet of 1950, 1954 and 1958 convocation. Deputy, Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic Supreme Soviet of 1947 convocation. 1955 Deputy, Moscow City Soviet of Workers’ Deputy.
1951 member, Moscow City and Krasnopresnensky District Committee All-Union (Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Main research into chemistry of organometallic and elemental-organic compounds. 1929 developed diazo method of synthesizing organic compounds of mercury.
Studied mutual conversions of organometallic compounds, paying special attention to spatial chemistry of their reciprocal transformations. Explained mechanism of electrophile substitution in saturated carbon atoms. Studied decay mechanism of various diazonium and iodonium compounds.
Ventured new hypotheses on long-term development of theory of chemical structure. 1924-1930 Assistant, 1930-1934 lecturer. 1934-1935 and 1944-1951 Professor, Chair of Organic Chemistry, Moscow University.
1930-1934 Head, Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Moscow Institute of Fertilizers, Insecticides and Fungicides. 1935-1938 Professor, Chair of Organic Chemistry, Chemical Faculty, Moscow University. 1935-1951 Head, Laboratory of Organometallic Compounds, Institute of Organic Chemistry, USSR Academy of Science.
1938-1941 Professor, and Head, Chair of Organic Chemistry, 1945-1948 Dean, Chemical Faculty, Moscow Institute of Fine Chemical Technology. 1947-1951 Deputy Chairman, Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic Supreme Soviet. 1946-1948 Academy Secretary,Department of Chemical Science, USSR Academy of Science.
1948-1951 Rector, Moscow University. 1951-1961 President, USSR Academy of Science.
Religion
Religion is bad because it stops people thinking in a rational and objective way.
Politics
Member, Communist Party, since 1944.
Views
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Membership
Member, Communist Party, since 1944.
