Natalia Aleksandrovna Kupershtokh,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Scientific Heritage of the Founders of the Chemical Institutes of Novosibirsk
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2021-2-4
The study of the scientific heritage of the outstanding scientists of Russia of the 20th century in the light of the implementation of modern national projects “Science” and “Education” is of particular relevance. The scientific potential of Russia, created over the past century, is still to a large extent the basis on which new priorities and directions of state scientific policy are formed. Among the academic institutes founded at the Novosibirsk Scientific Center (NSC) of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in the late 1950s, there was a representative group of chemistry institutes. New institutes were founded in the fields of catalysis, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, chemical kinetics and combustion. The names of their organizers – academicians G.K. Boreskov, N.N. Vorozhtsov, A.V. Nikolaev, V.V. Voevodsky are firmly established in the history of academic science and are an integral part of the world scientific heritage. The names of outstanding scientists have also become an integral part of the names of the chemical institutes of the NSC. In the modern scientific world, Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, N.N. Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry, Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Voevodsky Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion. The article analyzes the main milestones in the biographies of scientists, which allowed them to start a new business in Siberia and achieve fundamental scientific results in the field of chemical sciences in a short period of time. It also gives a brief description of the activities of the institutes and scientific schools founded by them.
Publishing: 28/04/2021
The article has been received by the editor on 20/02/2021
How to cite: Kupershtokh N.A. Scientific Heritage of the Founders of the Chemical Institutes of Novosibirsk // Historical Courier, 2021, No. 2 (16), pp. 48–67. [Available online:] http://istkurier.ru/data/2021/ISTKURIER-2021-2-04.pdf
Links: Issue 2 2021
The research was carried out with the financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Novosibirsk Region in the framework of the scientific project No. 19-49-540001 “The Institutes of Novosibirsk are Named After Them: the Life History of Outstanding Scientists of the 20th Century”.
Keywords: Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences / RAS; Novosibirsk Scientific Center; chemistry institutes; academicians G.K. Boreskov, N.N. Vorozhtsov, A.V. Nikolaev, V.V. Voevodsky; scientific heritage