Background
PORAY-KOSHITS, Aleksandr was born on October 8, 1877 in Kazan’.
PORAY-KOSHITS, Aleksandr was born on October 8, 1877 in Kazan’.
1903 graduate Saint St. Petersburg Polytech Institute.
1905 — 18 lecturer, 1918-1949 professor, Saint St. Petersburg (Leningrad) Technol Institute. 1941-1944 head, Chair of Organic Dyes, Kazan’ Institute of Chemical Technology From 1941 head, Laboratory of Intermediate Products and Dyes, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences.
From 1942 ed, “Zhurnal prikladnoy khimii”. Specialized in organic chemistry with special reference to aromatic scries. Did major research on dye chemistry and technological
Synthesized several dyes and studied the chemism of dying processes. Devised a method of extracting furfurole from sunflower husks.
Religiously inspired people justify violence, resist social changes, and attack on science.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1935.