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Alexander Nesmeyanov

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TIME Magazine June 12, 1958 cover featuring Alexander Nesmeyanov

Alexander Nikolayevich Nesmeyanov (Russian: Александр Николаевич Несмеянов) (September 9, 1899, Moscow - January 17, 1980, Moscow) was a prominent Soviet chemist and academician (1943) specializing in organometallic chemistry. He obtained his degree in chemistry in 1920 from Moscow State University where he thereafter served as lecturer, professor, and eventually rector.

He was the President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1951–1961. As the rector of the Moscow State University in 1948–1951, he oversaw the construction of its new campus at Sparrow Hills. He was twice awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor (1969, 1979). [1]

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Preceded by President of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1951–1961
Succeeded by