- Ivan Knunyants
Ivan Lyudvigovich Knunyants ( _ru. Иван Людвигович Кнунянц; OldStyleDate|4 June|1906|22 May (
Shusha , currentlyNagorno-Karabakh ) -December 21 1990 (Moscow ), was aSoviet chemist ofArmenia n origin, academic of theAcademy of Sciences of the USSR , aMajor General and engineer, who significantly contributed to the advancement of SovietChemistry . He made more than 200 inventions, many of which used in the Soviet industry.Hero of Socialist Labor (1966). Lenin Prize (1972).USSR State Prize (1943, 1948 and 1950).Graduated from Moscow Bauman Highest Technical School (MVTU) 1928, student of
Aleksei Chichibabin . Leader of laboratory for elementooranic chemistry.He is the inventor of poly-caprolactam (capron, nylon-6, polyamide-6), founder of Soviet school of
fluorocarbon 's chemistry, one of major developers of Sovietchemical weapons program, also an author of a few drugs forchemotherapy ofcancer .He proposed the method of getting the g-reaction atsetopropilic alcohol - an acetic ether with ethylene oxide, also used in the industrial synthesis of
vitamin B . His scientifical group synthesized compounds containing fluorine, along with nitro-, amino-hydroxy-isoquinoline-air and other groups.References
* [http://slovari.yandex.ru/dict/bse/article/00035/31800.htm?text=%D0%BA%D0%BD%D1%83%D0%BD%D1%8F%D0%BD%D1%86 Knuniants in Great Soviet Encyclopedia]
*ru icon [http://www.hrono.ru/biograf/bio_k/knunyanc.html Biography]
*ru icon [http://vivovoco.rsl.ru/VV/MISC/1/KNU.HTM I.L. Knunyants "Laboratory at Korovy Brod", Chemistry and Life, N6, 1981]
*ru icon [http://vgd105.valuehost.ru/K/knipper.htm Knunyants entry on the "All-Russia Genealogical Tree" site]
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