Nikolai Semenovich Kurnakov
Russian chemist
Died when: 80 years 103 days (963 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Nikolai Semyonovich Kurnakov (Russian: ??????? ????????? ????????; 6 December 1860 – 19 March 1941) 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 USSR.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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