THE NEGATIVE IMPACT OF THE RUSSIANS’ APPROPRIATION OF DISCOVERIES IN CHEMISTRY MADE BY SCIENTISTS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES ON THE FORMATION OF STUDENTS’ WORLDVIEW DURING THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the history of scientific discoveries in chemistry in order to revise the negative influence of russian scientists and the legacy of the Soviet Union on chemical education in Ukraine. Russian encroachment on the achievements of other states has affected virtually all spheres of life: the history of statehood, national symbols, world-famous writers and artists, inventions, technology and goods, and national cuisine. This also applies to innovations in science, particularly in chemistry. Russians boast about the outstanding russian chemists of the past centuries who allegedly achieved great success in the international field, although scientific plagiarism has always been popular in russia. Some laws, rules, doctrines, or theories that have been studied or continue to be studied even in Ukrainian schools as authored by russian scientists such as Mykhailo Lomonosov, Dmytro Mendeleev, Oleksandr Butlerov, and Volodymyr Markovnikov are actually the work of other people. The real authors of some of the inventions in chemistry are not of russian origin at all; they were never russians. They belonged to the European school of thought. The fundamental law of chemistry, the law of conservation of mass, attributed to Lomonosov, is of ancient origin and experimentally proven by the French scientist Antoine Lavoisier. Outside of the post-Soviet space, the periodic table is often associated with the name of the German scientist Julius Meyer and is known as the discoverer of the periodic law. Even the russian historian Kedrov emphasized Mendeleev’s “one-day discovery”. Meyer and Mendeleev had a long dispute about priorities and for the right of primacy in the discovery of the periodic table. Another russian, Butlerov, who allegedly developed the theory of the chemical structure of organic substances, got his ideas from the German scientist August Kekule, whose textbook and articles were published before Butlerov’s works. A study of contemporary literature shows that neither Markovnykov nor any of his contemporaries actually carried out the reactions attributed to him, and Markovnykov’s empirical rule is impossible without propylene or propane, which had not yet been obtained at the time. The situation that has developed due to the use of russian scientific plagiarism by Ukrainian schools has a negative impact on the formation of the worldview of students.