biography
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Semenov, Nikolay Nikolayevich
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pronunciation:
[semyonof]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1896–1986)
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| biography:
| Physical chemist, born in Saratov, W Russia. He studied at St Petersburg and became assistant director at the Leningrad Physical Technical Institute (1920–31). He was appointed director of the newly created Institute of Chemical Physics of the Academy of Sciences in Moscow, where he remained until shortly before his death. An expert in molecular physics, he carried out important research on the kinetics of gas reactions, for which he shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1956, the first Soviet citizen ever to receive a Nobel Prize. |
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