Background
He was born as a son of a preacher in Borisoglebskoe, near Ivanovo.
chemist inventor university professor
He was born as a son of a preacher in Borisoglebskoe, near Ivanovo.
He studied at the University of Kazan under Alexander Mikhailovich Zaitsev until 1882.
He went to Germany for further studies. He joined Victor Meyer at the University of Heidelberg and Wilhelm Ostwald at the University of Leipzig and finally getting his Doctor of Philosophy in 1891. The following year he was appointed professor at the University of Kiev where he stayed the rest of his life.
Russian Academy of Sciences. Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.