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Mammedaliyev Yusif Haydar
(31.12.1905, Ordubad – 15.12.1961, Baku; was buried at “Fekhri
Khiyaban” (“Honored Avenue”) – a chemist. Doctor of chemical
sciences (1942), professor (1942), academician (1945) and
president (1947-51 and 1958-61) of Azerbaijan Scientific
Academy, associate member of the Scientific Academy of the USSR
(1958). He is a laureate of USSR State Prize (1946) and was a
student of Academician N.D. Zelinsky. He graduated from the
Azerbaijan High Pedagogical Institute (present Azerbaijan
Pedagogical University) (1926), and worked as a teacher of
chemistry at Ganja Pedagogical Technical School and Yerevan
Pedagogical Institute and he continued his education at Moscow
State University named after Lomonosov and after two years began
to work at Azerbaijan Agricultural Institute (1932-1933) and
Azerbaijan Scientific-Research Oil Refining Institute
(1933-1945). He began to head the Oil Institute after Azerbaijan
Scientific Academy was created (1945). During 1954-1958 he was
rector of Azerbaijan State University (present Baku State
University).
Mammedaliyev’s main scientific works contain the issues of
catalytic oil and gas refining. He proposed new methods of
chlorination and brominating of different carbon-hydrogenise
with the presences of catalysts and showed the ways how to get
carbon-tetra-chloride, methyl-chloride, ethylene-chloride and
other precious products, using oil gas and especially methane on
the stationary catalysts first and later chlorinating in hot
lay. He is an author of more than 200 scientific works and 6
monographs. He did many things to train high-qualified
specialists. He was granted with the orders of Lenin, Red Labor
Flag, Honor and other titles and medals. His name was given to
the Oil Chemical Processes Institute of Azerbaijan Scientific
Academy and the scientific settlements where Ordubad Silk
Enterprise and Shamakhi observatory is located and one of
streets in Baku and to a prize. His museum was opened in Ordubad
city, his bust was erected and a memorial board was set at the
house in Baku, where he lived. His monument was erected near the
Presidium of the National Scientific Academy of Azerbaijan.
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