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Nikolai Semenovich Kurnakov

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Russian chemist (1860-1941)

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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.

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Stalin Prize
Order of Lenin
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Honoured Worker of Science and Technology of the RSFSR

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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.

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Lived 1860 to 1941 · aged 80
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