Khristo Ivanov
Bulgarian chemist
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Chemistry
Khristo Ivanov's Degrees
- Bachelors Chemistry Sofia University
- Masters Chemistry Sofia University
- PhD Chemistry Sofia University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Khristo Ivanov was a Bulgarian organic chemist. Life and career Khristo Ivanov was born on 3 May 1916 in the town of Dobrich, Bulgaria. His father Ivan Khristov was a hardware man, who died in 1918 after having fought in World War I, when Khristo Ivanov was just two. His mother, Elena Khristova, took care of her one and only son. Khristo Ivanov obtained his degree in chemistry from the Physico-Mathematical Faculty of Sofia University in 1939. After teaching Chemistry at school level in the towns of Popovo and Karlovo for a few years, he acquired the position of regular Assistant Professor at the same faculty in 1946. He specialized in the field of organic synthesis at the universities of Leipzig and Moscow . His academic career is associated with the University of Sofia – its Physico-Mathematical Faculty and the later Faculty of Chemistry that branched off from it . He received an Associate Professorship in 1957 and full Professorship and the Chair of Organic Chemistry in 1963. Ivanov was Head of the Department of Organic Chemistry from 1963 until his retirement in 1984, Vice Rector of Sofia University , Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry . He was member of the Presidium and later President of the Committee of Chemical Sciences of the Higher Attestation Commission. For the contribution to the advancement of science in his research, he was awarded the Cyril-and-Methodius medal , the People's-Republic-of-Bulgaria medal , and the Honorary medallion with Necklace of the "St. Kliment Ohridski" University of Sofia.
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