Butlerov Alexander Mikhailovich

Model of the monument which was installed in Moscow in front of the Main Building of Moscow State University. Image of a seated figure of an elderly man, his face has a thoughtful expression, a high open forehead, wide eyebrows, slightly squinted eyes, covered with heavy upper eyelids, a large nose, a neat mustache and a short wide beard with narrow sideburns. Dressed in a shirt with a tie, a double breasted coat. He has a book on the left knee, the body leans on the right one. Alexander Mikhaylovich Butlerov (15 September 1828 – 17 August 1886) was a Russian chemist, one of the principal creators of the theory of chemical structure (1857–1861), the first to incorporate double bonds into structural formulas, the discoverer of hexamine (1859), the discoverer of formaldehyde (1859) and the discoverer of the formose reaction (1861).