Nikolay Dimitrievich Zelinskiy
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Nikolay Dimitrievich Zelinskiy (Зелинский, Николай Дмитриевич in Russian) (February 6 n.s., 1861, Tiraspol, the largest city of Transnistria - July 31, 1953, Moscow), Russian chemist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of USSR (1929). He studied at the University of Odessa and at the universities of Leipzig and Göttingen in Germany. Zelinskiy was one of the founders of theory on organic catalysis. Zelinskiy crater on the moon is named in his honor.
Zelinskiy is the inventor of the first effective filtering coal gas mask in the world (1915).
In 2001, the Central Bank of Transnistria minted a silver coin honoring this native of today's Transnistria, as part of a series of memorable coins called The Outstanding People of Pridnestrovie.[1]
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