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Into a New Century: Chemists Advancing the Legacies of Kazan’, St. Petersburg, and Moscow

2012; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-642-28219-5_5

2191-5415

David E. Lewis,

Various Chemistry Research Topics

By the end of the 1870s, Russian organic chemistry had reached the technical and intellectual stature needed to make it unnecessary for a student to leave Russia to receive advanced training in the discipline. There were vibrant schools of chemistry at St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Kazan’, headed by Russian (and Russian-trained) Professors: Butlerov, Zinin, Borodin and Menshutkin at St. Petersburg, Markovnikov at Moscow, and Zaitsev at Kazan’. As noted in Chap. 1 , the founding of new universities continued throughout the nineteenth: Warsaw University (1816), St. Vladimir University (Kiev, 1834), and the Imperial Novorossiisk University (Odessa, 1865) and the Tomsk Imperial (Siberian) University (1878) are important examples, and each these universities played a role in bolstering the development of organic chemistry in pre-revolutionary Russia.