Academician N.S. Kurnakov and His Contribution to the Formation of the Russian Industry in the late XIX – early XX centuries

The paper examines the biography of academician Nikolai Semenovich Kurnakov (1860Kurnakov ( -1941)), a prominent chemist, metallurgist, the creator of the physico-chemical method.The paper does not embrace the scientist's whole life.Of interest is the time of Kurnakov's formation as a major scientist before the turning point in 1917 he met as a very mature man.Kurnakov managed to enter the professional circle of chemical scientists, became famous in the capital and in the empire.The future academician joined the informal social network of scientists.The turn of the 20th century was the time of his creative takeoff, due to which he had a constellation of brilliant students, among them N.I.