Background
TOPCHIYEV, Aleksandr was born on August 9, 1907.
TOPCHIYEV, Aleksandr was born on August 9, 1907.
1930 graduate Moscow Chemical Technol Institute.
1932-1938 lecturer, Moscow Chemical Technol Institute and Moscow Technol Institute of Food Indiana. 1938-1940 professor, Technol Institute of Food Indiana. 1940-1943 professor, 1943-1947 director, Moscow Oil Institute.
1947-1949 Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Deputy Minister of Higher Education. 1949-1958 chief learned secretary, Presidium, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. From 1952 simultaneously head, Department of Oil Chemistry and Technol, and head, Laboratory of Oil and Gas Chemistry, Oil Institute, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences.
From 1958 also director, Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. Honorary member, various for academic Deputy, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Supreme Soviet of 4th and 5th convocations.
From 1950 member, Soviet Peace Committee. Chairman, Moscow City Department, All-Union Social for the Dissemination of Polit and Sciences Knowledge. Board member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Association for the Promotion of the United Nations.
1960 headed Soviet deleg at 6th Pugwash Conference. Did research on catalytic processes of nitration, halogenation, polymerization and alkalization of various hydrocarbons.
Religion is bad because it obstructs scientific research.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Member from 1949 and vice-president from 1958, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. Communist Party member from 1932.