!!Oleg Matveyevich Nefedov \\ [Obituary|https://www.rsc.org/membership-and-community/member-obituaries/2023/professor-oleg-m-nefedov], Royal Society of Chemistry \\ \\ ---- !Curriculum vitae __Education:__ \\ *1954 Graduate, D.I.Mendeleev Institute of Chemical Technology, Moscow, USSR *1954 - 1957 Post-graduate course, D.I.Mendeleev Institute of Chemical Technology, Moscow, USSR *1957 Candidate of Sciences (PhD) from the same Institute *1967 Doctor of Sciences (Organic Chemistry), N.D.Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Moscow, USSR \\ __Professional Certification:__ \\ \\ Chemistry and chemical technology \\ \\ __Professional Carrier: __ \\ *1957 - 1968 Research Scientist, N.D.Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Moscow, USSR *1959 - 1960 Postdoctoral fellowship (Prof. Georg Wittig), Heidelburg University, Germany *1965 - 1966 Postdoctoral fellowship, Free University, Brussels, Belgium *1968 - present Head of the Laboratory of Carbene & Small Ring Chemistry, N.D.Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia *1968 - present Professor of Chemistry, N.D.Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia *1971 Visiting Professor, Pennsylvania State University, USA *1976 Visiting Professor, Kyoto University, Japan *1979 - 1987 Corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences *1981 Visiting Professor, University of Paris - Orsey, France *1984 Visiting Professor, Hamburg University, Germany *1987 - present Full Member (Academician) of the USSR Academy of Sciences - Russian Academy of Sciences *1988 - 1991 Academician-Secretary (Head) of the Division of General & Technical Chemistry of the USSR Academy of Sciences *1988 -2001 Vice President of the USSR Academy of Sciences - Russian Academy of Sciences *1990 - present Chairman (Rector) of the RAS Higher Chemical College *1990 - present Editor-in-Chief of the Journal "Mendeleev Communications", published jointly by the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of Chemistry *1991 - present Editor-in-Chief of the Russian Chemical Bulletin (Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya) *1995 - present Editor-in-Chief of the Russian Chemical Reviews (Uspekhi Khimii) *1996 - present Chairman of the National Committee of Russian Chemist *1999 - 2008 Member of the IUPAC Bureau & the Executive Committee (since 2001) *2001 - present Counsellor of the Russian Academy of Sciences *2009 – present Professor and Head of the chair at Lomonosov Moscow State University *President of the Mendeleev Congresses on General & Applied Chemistry (Tashkent-1989, Minsk-1993, St.Petersburg-1998, Kazan-2003, Moscow - 2007) \\ __Current positions:__ \\ \\ Head of the Department, N.D.Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry of RAS; Rector of the RAS Higher Chemical College; Counsellor of the Russian Academy of Sciences \\ \\ __Honorary degrees:__ \\ *1991 - present Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, London, United Kingdom *1991 - present Member of the Academia Europaea, London, United Kingdom *1991 - present Member of the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea, Salzburg, Austria *1996 - present Foreign Member of the Georgia Academy of Sciences. *1997 - present Member of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials (APAM), Bungalore, India *2000 - present Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine *2000 - present Honorary Professor of Harbin Polytechnic Institute, China *2001 - present Honorary Professor of D.I.Mendeleev Russian Chemical Technology University, Moscow, Russia \\ __Awards:__ \\ *1983, 1990 USSR State Prize in Science & Technology (twice), Moscow, USSR *1987 N.D.Zelinsky Prize, Moscow, USSR *1988 Prize of the USSR & Hungarian Academies of Sciences, Moscow, USSR *1991 N.N.Semenov Prize, Moscow, Russia *1993 A.P.Karpinsky Prize, Hamburg, Germany *1998 D.I.Mendeleev Gold Medal, Moscow, Russia *2002 Russian Federation State Prize in Science & Technology, Moscow, Russia *2003 A.M. Butlerov Prize, Moscow, Russia \\ __Research Field:__ \\ \\ Physical organic chemistry, small ring chemistry, organic synthesis, organometallic chemistry