page_title: List of Russian people
section_title: Chemists and material scientists
hierarchical_section_title: List of Russian people / Scientists and scholars / Chemists and material scientists
caption_attribution_description: English: Sergei Lebedev (1874–1934), Russian chemist and inventor of commercially viable synthetic rubber.
context_page_description: This is a list of people associated with the modern Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, Imperial Russia, Russian Tsardom, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Kievan Rus', and other predecessor states of Russia.
  Regardless of ethnicity or emigration, the list includes famous natives of Russia and its predecessor states, as well as people who were born elsewhere but spent most of their active life in Russia.
context_section_description: Ernest Beaux, inventor of Chanel No. 5, "the world's most legendary fragrance"
  Nikolay Beketov, inventor of aluminothermy, a founder of physical chemistry
  Friedrich Konrad Beilstein, proposed the Beilstein test for halogen detection, compiled the Beilstein database in organic chemistry
  Boris Belousov, discoverer of Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, a classical example of non-equilibrium thermodynamics
  Alexander Borodin, chemist and composer, the author of the famous opera Prince Igor, discovered Borodin reaction, co-discovered Aldol reaction
  Aleksandr Butlerov, discovered hexamine, formaldehyde and formose reaction (the first synthesis of sugar), the first to incorporate double bonds into structural formulae, a founder of organic chemistry and the theory of chemical structure
  Dmitry Chernov, founder of modern metallography, discovered polymorphism in metals, built the iron–carbon phase diagram
  Aleksei Chichibabin, discovered Chichibabin pyridine synthesis, Bodroux-Chichibabin aldehyde synthesis and Chichibabin reaction
  Karl Ernst Claus, chemist and botanist, discoverer of ruthenium
  Aleksandr Dianin, discovered Bisphenol A and Dianin's compound
  Constantin Fahlberg, inventor of saccharin, the first artificial sweetener
  Alexey Favorsky, discoverer of Favorskii rearrangement and Favorskii reaction in organic chemistry
  Alexander Frumkin, a founder of modern electrochemistry, author of the theory of electrode reactions
  Yevgraf Fyodorov, the first to enumerate all of the 230 space groups of crystals, thus founding the modern crystallography
  Andre Geim, inventor of graphene, developer of gecko tape, Nobel Prize in Physics winner
  Vladimir Ipatieff, inventor of Ipatieff bomb, a founder of petrochemistry
  Isidore, legendary inventor of Russian vodka
  Boris Jacobi, re-discovered and commercialized electroplating
  Pyotr Kapitsa, discovered superfluidity while studying liquid helium, Nobel Prize in Physics winner
  Gottlieb Kirchhoff, discoverer of glucose
  Ivan Knunyants, inventor of poly-caprolactam, a developer of Soviet chemical weapons
  Sergei Lebedev, inventor of polybutadiene, the first commercially viable synthetic rubber
  Mikhail Lomonosov, polymath, coined the term physical chemistry, re-discovered smalt, disproved the phlogiston theory, the first to record the freezing of mercury
  Aleksandr Loran,  inventor of fire fighting foam
  Konstantin Novoselov, inventor of graphene, developer of gecko tape, Nobel Prize in Physics winner
  Vladimir Markovnikov, author of the Markovnikov's rule in organic chemistry, discoverer of naphthenes
  Dmitri Mendeleyev, invented the Periodic table of chemical elements, the first to predict the properties of elements yet to be discovered, inventor of pyrocollodion, developer of pipelines and a prominent researcher of vodka
  Nikolai Menshutkin, discoverer of Menshutkin reaction in organic chemistry
  Ilya Prigogine, researcher of dissipative systems, complex systems and irreversibility, Nobel Prize winner
  Sergey Reformatsky, discoverer of the Reformatsky reaction in organic chemistry
  Nikolay Semyonov, physical chemist, author of the chain reaction theory, Nobel Prize winner
  Vladimir Shukhov, polymath, inventor of chemical cracking
  Mikhail Tsvet, botanist, inventor of chromatography
  Victor Veselago, the first researcher of materials with negative permittivity and permeability
  Dmitry Vinogradov, inventor of the Russian porcelain
  Paul Walden, discovered the Walden inversion and ethylammonium nitrate, the first room temperature ionic liquid
  Alexander Zaytsev, author of the Zaitsev's rule in organic chemistry
  Nikolay Zelinsky, inventor of activated charcoal gas mask in Europe during World War I, co-discoverer of Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky halogenation, a founder of petrochemistry
  Nikolai Zinin, discovered benzidine, co-discovered aniline, the first President of the Russian Physical-Chemical Society
caption: Sergei Lebedev
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