Nikolai Semyonovich Kurnakov (Russian: Николай Семёнович Курнаков; 6 December 1860 – 19 March 1941) was a Russian chemist who was internationally recognized as the originator of physicochemical analysis and he was one of the principal founders of the platinum industry in the USSR. A chemical reaction that he pioneered, known as the Kurnakov test, is still used to differentiate cis from trans isomers of divalent platinum and is his best-known contribution to coordination chemistry.
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6 December 1860 Nolinsk, Russia
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Died |
19 March 1941 (aged 80) Barvikha, USSR
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Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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