Sergey Nametkin

Sergey Nametkin
Image of Nametkin on a 1973 stamp
Born
Sergey Semyonovich Nametkin

(1876-07-03)July 3, 1876
DiedAugust 5, 1950(1950-08-05) (aged 74)
Alma materMoscow State University
ChildrenNikolay Namyotkin
Alexey Lyapunov (stepson)
AwardsUSSR State Prize (1943, 1949)
Order of Lenin (1946)
Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1940, 1944, 1945)
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
Thesis Research on bicyclic compounds (1917)  (1917)
Academic advisorsNikolay Zelinsky

Sergey Semyonovich Nametkin (Russian: Сергей Семёнович Намёткин; 3 July [O.S. 21 June] 1876 5 August 1950) was a Soviet and Russian organic chemist, a prominent researcher in terpene chemistry, the cracking of petrochemicals, and rearrangement of camphenes. Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Winner of two Stalin Prizes.