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LAVROVSKII, KONSTANTIN PETROVICH (Organic Chemist) 



K. P. Lavrovskii was born December 31, 1898. He graduat- 

 ed in 1926 from Moscow University. In 1930-34 he worked at 

 the State Scientific Research Oil Institute and in 1933 became a 

 professor there. He also worked for a number of years in the 

 oil industry. Beginning in 1942 he was at the U.S.S.R. Academy 

 of Sciences, first at the Institute of Mineral Fields, then at the 

 Institute of Oil. Since 1953 he has been a Corresponding Mem- 

 ber of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. He has been a mem- 

 ber of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1920. He 

 was awarded M. V. Frunze and N. D. Zelinskii Prizes. 



Lavrovskii' s investigations are concerned with the field of 

 chemistry and technology of oil refining and organic catalysis. 

 His work on the synthesis of tetraethyl lead was the basis for 

 the Soviet production of this antiknock agent. He developed the 

 commercial production of aviation gasoline from sulfur crude 

 of "Second Baku." His studies of catalytic hydrocarbon trans- 

 formations was a theoretical basis for the production of unsatu- 

 rated gases and high octane fuels. 

 Bibliography: 



and A. M. Brodskii . Physico-chemical investigation of high 

 velocity cracking. Reports at the IVth International Oil 

 Congress in Rome. Moscow: 1955. 



and A. M. Brodskii. Processing of gaseous paraffins under 

 conditions of high velocity cracking. Works of the Institute 

 of Oil of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, 1954, 4, 176-198. 

 and Yu. L. Fish, N. N. Naimushin. Catalytic cracking of 

 cyclical hydrocarbons under pressure. Works of the Insti- 

 tute of Oil of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, 1952, 2. 

 and A. L. Rozenthal' and A. Kh. Eglit . Interaction of iron 

 ores with methane in conditions of a 'boiling' layer. Doklady 

 Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., 1957, IJ^, #4. 

 Office: USSR Academy of Sciences Institute of Petrochemi- 



cal Synthesis 

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LEBEDEV, ALEKSANDR ALEKSEEVICH (Physicist) 



A. A. Lebedev was born November 26, 1893. In 1916 he 

 graduated from Petersburg University and remained there to 

 prepare for a professorship. Except for a few years, he has 



