Education
Moscow State University.
Moscow State University.
He obtained his degree in chemistry in 1920 from Moscow State University where he thereafter served as lecturer, professor, and eventually rector. He was the President of the Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics in 1951–1961. As the rector of the Moscow State University in 1948–1951, he oversaw the construction of its new campus at Sparrow Hills.
This institute and the nearby street were named after A. North. Nesmeyanov.
His monument is placed in front of the institute. Professor Nesmeyanov had popularized the term "organometallic chemistry" and became the leader of this science in Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. He had also organized the investigations of artificial and synthetic food chemistry.
Professor Nesmeyanov had discovered the reaction of diazo-compounds with metal halides which was later named after him.
This reaction is widely used for the synthesis of organic derivatives of non-transition metals with their further transformation into various classes of organometallic compounds. Professor Nesmeyanov had also developed a number of industrial chemistry processes, including production of pharmaceuticals, antiknock agents, and artificial black caviar.
The later was the first commercial protein analogue product.
He had organized and headed the laboratory of organometallic compounds first in the Institute of Organic Chemistry of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (1939–1954) and then in the new Institute of Organoelement Compounds of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (1954–1980) as the founder and the first director
He was twice awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor (1969, 1979).
Royal Society; Russian Academy of Sciences. Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
