LIFE AND WORK OF SYNTHETIC RUBBER DISCOVERER, VILYUISK BORN, IVAN LAVRENT'EVICH KONDAKOV
In the history of world science there are discoveries that are ahead of their time, giving new impetus to the development of scientific thought, technology and the whole civilization. It was the discovery that our countryman, the Viluite Ivan Lavrent'evich Kondakov, did at one time. He was the first in the world to receive synthetic rubber in the laboratory in 1901. It was a major discovery of the scientist, which initiated industrial development of rubber-technical products. By his technology the production of rubber from synthetic rubber was established for the first time in Germany, he is the author of the first monograph on synthetic rubber. Undoubtedly, his bright scientific work and discoveries wrote his name in gold letters in the history of world science. But, unfortunately, our countrymen sometimes do not know, and have not even heard of Ivan Lavrent'evich, his scientific merits have not been adequately evaluated, and the biography and heritage are not fully understood. The main goal of the article is to attract public attention to the personality and relevance of scientific research on perpetuation of the name of great Russian scientist and chemist Ivan Lavrent'evich Kondakov.