BOOK AWARD WINNER: N. SEMENOV: SOVIET SCIENCE LEGEND
Nonfiction Book Award Status: GOLD Synopsis This story is about Nikolay Semenov (1896-1986), one of the most distinguished and influential scientists in the post-war USSR, and the first Soviet scientist to win the Nobel prize for chemistry. Semenov’s discoveries about branched-chain reactions in the early 1930s became his most significant scientific contribution. The Institute of […]