In Moscow on the territory of National Research Nuclear University "MEPhI" a monument was erected by the sculptor Alexandra Mironova
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Nikolay Semyonov
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov , sometimes Semenov, Semionov or Semenoff was a Soviet physicist and chemist. Semyonov was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the mechanism of chemical transformation.
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science · Soviet physicist and chemist (1896–1986) · physicist · chemist · professor · politician · also Nikolay Semyonov, Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov, Nikolai Nikolaevich Semenov, Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Semyonov
Born 3 April 1896 · Died 25 September 1986 · Q48990
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1996· 1 entry
And one of the streets in the South-Western Administrative District of the city of Moscow on the territory of the Yuzhnoye Butovo District was given the name Academician Semyonov Street;
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1994· 1 entry
A memorial plaque was unveiled in honor of Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov on the main building of the St
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1986· 3 entries
Died 1986-09-25.
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In Moscow, and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery
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Awarded Order of the October Revolution (1986).
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1981).
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1976· 3 entries
Awarded Hero of Socialist Labour (1976).
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Awarded Lenin Prize (1976).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1976).
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1971· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1971).
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1969· 1 entry
Won Lomonosov Gold Medal (1969).
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1966· 2 entries
Awarded Hero of Socialist Labour (1966).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1966).
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1958· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1958).
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1956· 2 entries
Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1956).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1956).
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1954· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1954).
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Was revised in 1958; there are also English, American, German, and Chinese editions
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1953· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1953).
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Coauthored the Soviet response which denied all accusations
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1949· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1949).
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Awarded Stalin Prize, 2nd degree (1949).
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1946· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1946).
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1945· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1945).
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1941· 2 entries
Awarded State Stalin Prize, 1st degree (1941).
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Awarded Stalin Prize, 2nd degree (1941).
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1932· 1 entry
Became a full member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences
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1931· 1 entry
Organized the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the USSR Academy of Sciences (which moved to Chernogolovka in 1943) and became its first director
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1928· 2 entries
He, together with Vladimir Fock, created a theory of thermal disruptive discharge of dielectrics
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Created the theory of the broken discharge of dielectrics with Vladimir Fock
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1927· 2 entries
Semyonov studied the ionization of gases, the chemistry of the electron
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Studied ionisation in gases and published an important book, Chemistry of the Electron
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1925· 1 entry
Semyonov, together with Yakov Frenkel, studied kinetics of condensation and adsorption of vapors
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1924· 1 entry
Nikolay married Maria's niece, Natalia Nikolayevna Burtseva
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1921· 1 entry
Married philologist Maria Boreishe-Liverovsky (student of Zhirmunsky)
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1918· 1 entry
Moved to Samara, where he was enlisted into Kolchak's White Army in 1919 during the Russian Civil War, although he obtained a teaching deferment and managed to avoid service
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1917· 1 entry
Studied at Imperial St. Petersburg University (1913–1917).
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1913· 1 entry
Studied at Samara Real School (1913).
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1896· 1 entry
Born 1896-04-03.
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