Nikolai Kurnakov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nikolai Kurnakov

Russian chemist

Date of Birth: 24-Nov-1860

Place of Birth: Nolinsk, Russia

Date of Death: 19-Mar-1941

Profession: chemist, metallurgist

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Nikolai Semenovich Kurnakov (Russian: ??????? ????????? ????????; 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.