Alexander Nesmeyanov's father, graduated with excellence Vladimir Gymnasium, and then the Faculty of Law of Moscow University.
12 Facts About Alexander Nesmeyanov
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Alexander Nesmeyanov had married in 1898 and worked at the Moscow city government, then he was a director Bakhrushinsky orphanage in Moscow.
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At ten years Alexander Nesmeyanov became a vegetarian, and in 1913 he stopped eating fish.
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In 1920, classes at Moscow State University were frozen due to problems with heating, and Alexander Nesmeyanov entered the Military Pedagogical Academy on Bolshaya Gruzinskaya Street.
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Alexander Nesmeyanov headed the Department of Organic Chemistry at the Institute of Fine Chemical Technology since 1938.
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From 1939 to 1954 Alexander Nesmeyanov was director of the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.
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On February 16,1951, at an extraordinary session of the general meeting of the Academy of Sciences, Alexander Nesmeyanov was elected its president.
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On May 19,1961, Alexander Nesmeyanov resigned as president of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union of his own free will.
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Alexander Nesmeyanov was one of the academicians of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, who in 1973 signed a letter from scientists to the Pravda newspaper condemning "the behavior of Academician AD Sakharov ".
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Alexander Nesmeyanov was shot on July 28,1941 on charges of espionage.
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Alexander Nesmeyanov was rehabilitated on September 17,1955 by the decision of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR.
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In 1961, Alexander Nesmeyanov formulated the idea of obtaining food by synthetic methods, bypassing agriculture.