Nikolay Zelinsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nikolay Zelinsky

Russian chemist

Date of Birth: 06-Feb-1861

Place of Birth: Tiraspol, Moldova

Date of Death: 31-Jul-1953

Profession: inventor, chemist, university teacher

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Nikolay Dimitrievich Zelinsky (Russian: ??????? ?????????? ?????????; 6 February n.s., 1861 – 31 July 1953) was a Russian and Soviet chemist of Ukrainian origin, an academician of the Academy of Sciences of USSR (1929). Zelinsky studied at the University of Odessa and at the universities of Leipzig and Göttingen in Germany.
Zelinsky was one of the founders of theory on organic catalysis.
He is the inventor of the first effective filtering activated charcoal gas mask in the world (1915).