Aleksei Chichibabin

Aleksy Yevgnyevich Chichibbin was a SovietRussian organic chemist, bornMarch1601601871, Kuzemino village, current Poltava Oblast, Ukraine, died in Paris, France,August 1945. His name is also written Alexei Yevgenievich Chichibabin and Alexei Euguenievich Tchitchibabine.

Chichibbin was born at Kusemino on March 17, 1871. He studied at the University of Moscow from 1888 until 1892, and received his PhD from the University of Saint Petersburg. He became a professor at the Imperial College of Technology in Moscow in 1909, and remained there until 1929. After losing his daughter Natacha, a chemist, to an industrial oleum accident that he deemed preventable, Chichibbin moved to Paris where he remained despite threat of and eventual stripping of his Soviet citizenship and his position in the Academy of Sciences . In 1931 he began working at the Collge de France, remaining until his death in 1945, but also serving over parts of the same period as the director of research at French dye and fine chemical manufacturer tablissement Kuhlmann, and as an advisor to the Schering and Roosevelt Co. of New York.

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