Biography:Vsevolod Perekalin

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Vsevolod Vasilyevich Perekalin (Russian: Всеволод Васильевич Перекалин; 27 February 1913, Saint Petersburg – 7 January 1998, Saint Petersburg) was a Soviet and Russian organic chemist, Doktor nauk. He created the drug known as Phenibut.[1]

Biography

His father was a military physician.[2] He was a student of Academician Alexander Jewgenjewitsch Porai-Koschiz (de). In 1940, he defended his Candidate's Dissertation at the N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry.[1][2] In 1949, he defended his doctoral dissertation. From 1950 to 1992, Perekalin headed the Department of Organic Chemistry at the Herzen University.[1] In this University he organized the Faculty of Chemistry. He taught in the Herzen University for 48 years. In 1995, he was appointed Soros Professor.[1]

He has a son Pyotr.[3]

Perekalin is the author of more than 350 scientific papers.[3][1]

Awards and honors

  • Ushinsky Medal[2]
  • Honored Science Worker of the RSFSR (1967)
  • Latvian SSR State Prize
  • Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class
  • Order of the Red Banner of Labour

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