Nikolai Prilezhaev
Russian organic chemist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nikolai Alexandrovich Prilezhaev, , was a Russian organic chemist. The Prilezhaev reaction, in which an alkene and a peroxyacid react to form an epoxide, is named after him. Prilezhaev was the son of a clergyman and studied chemistry at the Theological Seminary in Warsaw and then at the University of Warsaw under the supervision of Yegor Yegorovich Vagner . After graduating in 1900 he was assistant professor of organic chemistry at the Polytechnic in Warsaw where he belonged to the school of organic chemistry founded by Wagner. After earning a master's degree in 1912 in St. Petersburg, he became associate professor of organic chemistry at the University of Warsaw. In 1915 he became a professor at the Polytechnic in Kiev and in 1924 at the University of Minsk. There he established the Faculty of Chemistry and between 1931 and 1933 was director of the Institute of Chemistry of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences.
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