Alexander Nesmeyanov
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Alexander Nikolayevich Nesmeyanov (Russian: Александр Николаевич Несмеянов) (September 9, 1899, Moscow - 1980, Moscow) was a Soviet chemist, academician (1943), president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1951-1961), and Hero of Socialist Labor (1969, 1979).