What is Olga Bogdanova?
{{Infobox scientist | native_name = Ольга Константиновна Богданова | name = Olga Bogdanova | birth_place = [[Mogilev]], [[Russian Empire]] | birth_date = 29 June n.s. (11 July o.s.) 1896 | death_date = March 1982 (aged 85) | citizenship = [[USSR]] | workplaces = [[Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union]], Institute of Organic Chemistry | awards = [[Order of the Red Banner of Labour]] 1953, 1967; Medal “For Valorous Labour during the Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945”; <br>Medal “In Honor of the 800th Anniversary of the Founding of Moscow”; [[Stalin Prize]] 1950 }} '''Olga Konstantinovna Bogdanova''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Ольга Константиновна Богда́нова; 29 June [[Old Style and New Style dates|n.s.]], 1896 — March 1982) was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[chemist]], a specialist in organic catalysis. == Biography == In the 1920s Bogdanova worked in a laboratory at a [[synthetic rubber]] factory. From the early 1930s she worked at the [http://www.ioc.ac.ru/english N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry] of the [[Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union]] (now: [[Russian Academy of Sciences]]). Bordanova was a student and, for many years, a colleague of [[Academician|Academicians]] [[Nikolay Zelinsky|N. D. Zelinsky]] and [[Aleksei Balandin|A. A. Balandin]]. === Main achievements === * In 1941—1942 A. A. Balandin, O. K. Bogdanova, and A. P. Shcheglova developed and implemented at a synthetic rubber factory a method for producing a gas-resistant (polysulfide or thio) rubber, which was widely used in the production of a “self-tightening” – or, more accurately, “self-sealing” when struck by bullets – coating for aircraft fuel tanks. * In 1946—1952, a new method was developed for obtaining 1,3 butadiene from petroleum feedstock on chromium oxide catalysts, which found industrial application at synthetic rubber factories in Sterlitamak and Sumgait (O. K. Bogdanova and A. P. Shcheglova) * In 1974—1981 O. K. Bogdanova and D. P. Belomestnykh devel