Alexander Butlerov, Russian chemist and academic (died 1886)

Alexander Butlerov

Russian chemist (1828–1886)

Alexander Mikhaylovich Butlerov was a Russian chemist, one of the principal creators of the theory of chemical structure (1857–1861), the first to incorporate double bonds into structural formulas, the discoverer of hexamine (1859), the discoverer of formaldehyde (1859) and the…