# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nikolai-semenovich-kurnakov
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:46:38.755Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nikolai-semenovich-kurnakov"
name: "Nikolai Semenovich Kurnakov"
slug: "nikolai-semenovich-kurnakov"
description: "Nikolai Semyonovich Kurnakov was a Russian chemist, who is internationally recognized as the originator of physicochemical analysis. He also was one of the principal founders of the platinum industry in the Soviet Union. A chemical reaction that he pioneered, known as the Kurnakov test, is still used to differentiate cis from trans isomers of divalent platinum and is his best-known contribution to coordination chemistry."
tagline: "Russian chemist (1860-1941)"
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gender: "male"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1860-11-24"
deathDate: "1941-03-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           11.208964
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump