List of Russian chemists
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This list of Russian chemists includes the famous chemists and material scientists of the Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, the Russian Empire and other predecessor states of Russia.
Alphabetical list
A
Aleksandr Arbuzov, discovered Arbuzov reaction.
B
Alexander Baykov, an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Ernest Beaux, inventor of Chanel No. 5, "the world's most legendary fragrance"
Nikolay Beketov, inventor of aluminothermy, a founder of physical chemistry
Friedrich Konrad Beilstein, proposed the Beilstein test for the detection of halogens, author of the Beilstein database in organic chemistry
Boris Belousov, chemist and biophysicist, discoverer of Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, a classical example of non-equilibrium thermodynamics
Alexander Borodin, chemist and composer, the author of the famous opera Prince Igor, discovered Borodin reaction, co-discovered Aldol reaction
Aleksandr Butlerov, discovered hexamine, formaldehyde and formose reaction (the first synthesis of sugar), the first to incorporate double bonds into structural formulae, a founder of organic chemistry and the theory of chemical structure
C
Dmitry Chernov, founder of modern metallography, discovered polymorphism in metals, built the iron-carbon phase diagram
Aleksei Chichibabin, discovered Chichibabin pyridine synthesis, Bodroux–Chichibabin aldehyde synthesis and Chichibabin reaction
Lev Chugaev, discoverer of Chugaev elimination in organic chemistry
Karl Ernst Claus, chemist and botanist, discoverer of ruthenium
D
Nikolay Demyanov, discoverer of Demjanov rearrangement in organic chemistry
Aleksandr Dianin, discoverer of Bisphenol A and Dianin's compound
Anton Dumansky, a founder of colloidal chemistry
F
Constantin Fahlberg, inventor of saccharin, the first artificial sweetener
Alexey Favorsky, discoverer of Favorskii rearrangement and Favorskii reaction in organic chemistry
Alexander Frumkin, a founder of modern electrochemistry, author of the theory of electrode reactions
Evgraf Fedorov, first to enumerate all of the 230 space groups of crystals, thus founding the modern crystallography
G
Andre Geim, inventor of graphene, developer of gecko tape, Nobel Prize in Physics winner
Igor Gorynin, inventor of weldable titanium alloys, high strength aluminium alloys, and many radiation-hardened steels
H
Germain Henri Hess, (1802–1850), Swiss-born Russian chemist. Namesake of Hess's law.
Victor Henri (1872–1940), French physical chemist of Russian parents.
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Vladimir Ipatieff, inventor of Ipatieff bomb, a founder of petrochemistry
Isidore, legendary inventor of the Russian vodka
J
Boris Jacobi, re-discovered electroplating and initiated its practical usage
K
Pyotr Kapitsa, discovered superfluidity while studying liquid helium, Nobel Prize in Physics winner
Salambek Khadzhiyev, petrochemist who specialized in the production of low-pour, high-density petroleum fuels transformations of hydrocarbons on zeolite
Morris Kharasch, inventor of anti-microbial compound thimerosal
Gottlieb Kirchhoff, discoverer of glucose
Ivan Knunyants, inventor of poly-caprolactam, founder of Soviet school of fluorocarbon's chemistry, a developer of Soviet chemical weapons
L
Sergei Lebedev, inventor of polybutadiene, the first commercially viable synthetic rubber
Mikhail Lomonosov, polymath, coined the term physical chemistry, re-discovered smalt and founded the scientific study of glass, proved that the phlogiston theory was false, the first to record the freezing of mercury
Aleksandr Loran, inventor of fire fighting foam
M
Vladimir Markovnikov, author of the Markovnikov's rule in organic chemistry, discoverer of naphthenes
Yurii Sh. Matros, Russian-American chemist and chemical engineer, developer of Matros reactor, founder of Matros Technologies Inc.
Dmitri Mendeleyev, invented the Periodic table of chemical elements, the first to predict the properties of elements yet to be discovered, invented pyrocollodion, developer of pipelines and a prominent researcher of vodka
Nikolai Menshutkin, discoverer of Menshutkin reaction in organic chemistry
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Sergey Namyotkin, prominent researcher of terpenes, discoverer of Nametkin rearrangement
Konstantin Novoselov, inventor of graphene, developer of gecko tape, Nobel Prize in Physics winner
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Anatoly V. Oleynik, researcher in photochemistry.
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