Yusif Mammadaliyev
Azerbaijani chemist (1905–1961)
Yusif Haydar oglu Mammadaliyev (Azerbaijani: Yusif Heydər oğlu Məmmədəliyev; December 31, 1905 – December 15, 1961) was an Azerbaijani and Soviet chemist. He was a doctor of chemistry, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR, and was the president of the National Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR.
Biography
He was born on December 31, 1905, in Ordubad.
In 1923, he entered the higher pedagogical institute of Baku. In 1926, after successful graduation from the institute, he taught at secondary school for 3 years. In 1929, he became a second-year student of the chemistry faculty of MSU, from which he graduated in 1932. He was a student of Nikolay Zelinsky and Aleksei Balandin and specialized in organocatalysis. Upon completion of his time at MSU, he worked in Moscow at the chemical plant No. 1, and then was transferred to Azerbaijan, where he managed the Cathedra of organic chemistry of the agricultural college of Azerbaijan at first. Then he worked (1933–1945) at the Azerbaijan Research Institute of Oil, where he became the manager of the laboratory. His work was dedicated to scientific problems of petrochemistry and organocatalysis and was closely connected with the development of domestic oil-refining and petrochemical industry.
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