Meetings and Other Functions

The RKhO did act to influence its disciplinary interests by sponsoring a series of prizes and awards given to Russian chemists. The first such prize was established in 1880 at the suggestion of A. M. Butlerov, who was at 

Shishkov (1891), N. N. Beketov (1903) and M. G. Kucherov (1913). All of these prizes served not only to honour the memories of prominent Russian chemists, but also to stimulate the production of new chemistry research in Russia and its publication inside Russia. 

Brooks, Nathan M. (1989), The Formation of a Community of Chemists in Russia, 1700-1870, Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University. 

Brooks, Nathan M. (1995), Russian chemistry in the 1850s a failed attempt at institutionalization, Annals of Science 52, 577-589. 

(1961), Pis ma russkikh khimikov k A. M. Butlerovu. Nauchnoe nasledstvo, vol. 4, Izd-vo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow. 

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