Ivan Knunyants
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Ivan Lyudvigovich Knunyants (Armenian: Իվան Կնունյանց, Russian: Иван Людвигович Кнунянц; 4 June [O.S. 22 May] 1906 – 21 December 1990), was a Soviet chemist of Armenian origin, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, a major general and engineer, who significantly contributed to the advancement of Soviet chemistry.[1] He made more than 200 inventions, many of which used in the Soviet industry.
Ivan Knunyants | |
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Born | Ivan Lyudvigovich Knunyants (1906-06-04)June 4, 1906 |
Died | December 21, 1990(1990-12-21) (aged 84) |
Nationality | Soviet Union |
Known for | One of major developers of Soviet chemical weapons program |
Awards | Hero of Socialist Labour (1966) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Chemistry |
Graduated from Moscow Bauman Highest Technical School (MVTU) 1928, student of Aleksei Chichibabin. Leader of laboratory for elementooranic chemistry.
He was one of the pioneers of the synthesis of poly-caprolactam (capron, nylon-6, polyamide-6), founder of Soviet school of fluorocarbon's chemistry, one of major developers of Soviet chemical weapons program, also an author of a few drugs for chemotherapy of cancer.
He proposed the method of getting the 5-hydroxypentan-2-one from ethyl ethanoate and oxirane, also used in the industrial synthesis of vitamin B. His scientific group synthesized compounds containing fluorine, along with nitro-, amino-hydroxy-isoquinoline-air and other groups.