About Yuri Shvachkin
Lived 1930 – 2021 (aged 90). Yuri Shvachkin was a Russian chemist.
Yuri Petrovich Shvachkin (; 15 November 1930 in Yevpatoria, USSR – 20 February 2021 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet and Russian chemist.
Career He was a Doctor of Chemistry, Professor of the Department of Chemistry of Natural Compounds, Faculty of Chemistry, Moscow State University. He is one of the first Soviet scientists who worked on the development of methods for the synthesis of human insulin and was heavily invested in the study of human semen.
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Russian chemist
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Yuri Shvachkin was born on 15 November 1930 in Yevpatoriya.
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Yuri Shvachkin died on 20 February 2021 in Moscow.
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Yuri Shvachkin was a chemist.
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Yuri Shvachkin was Russian.
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