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Nikolay Semyonov
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Nikolay Semyonov

1896 – 1986 · aged 90

Soviet physical chemist (1896-1986)

Born
1896 · Saratov
Died
25 Sept 1986 · Moscow
Part ofRussia1223 – todayRussian Empire1681 – 1922Soviet Union1848 – 1991

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 103 years
  1. 1896BornBorn in Saratov
  2. 1941AwardStalin Prize, 2nd degree
  3. 1941AwardState Stalin Prize, 1st degree
  4. 1945AwardOrder of Lenin
  5. 1946AwardOrder of the Red Banner of Labour
  6. 1949AwardOrder of Lenin
  7. 1949AwardStalin Prize, 2nd degree
  8. 1953AwardOrder of Lenin
  9. 1954AwardOrder of Lenin
  10. 1956AwardOrder of Lenin
  11. 1956AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
  12. 1958AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  13. 1966AwardHero of Socialist Labour
  14. 25 Sept 1986DiedDied in Moscow

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1896 – 1986).

  1. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  2. 1898Spanish–American War
  3. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  4. 1914 – 1918World War I
  5. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  6. 1917Balfour Declaration
  7. 1917February Revolution
  8. 1917October Revolution
  9. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  10. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  11. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  12. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  13. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  14. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  15. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  16. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1938Munich Agreement
  18. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  19. 1939 – 1945World War II
  20. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  21. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  22. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  23. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  24. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  25. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  26. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  27. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  29. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  30. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  31. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  32. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  33. 1956Suez Crisis
  34. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  36. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  37. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  38. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  39. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  40. 1968Prague Spring

Biography

Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov , sometimes Semenov, Semionov or Semenoff (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Семёнов; 15 April [O.S. 3 April] 1896 – 25 September 1986) 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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