Nikolai Aleksandrovich Trifonov (Russian: Николай Александрович Трифонов; 23 February 1891 – 9 December 1958) was a Soviet chemist and founder of the Scientific School of Chemistry.
Trifonov continued his studies and research under Russian chemists Nikolai Kurnakov, Vladimir Kistyakovskii, Pavel Fedotov, Abram Ioffe, and Aleksandr Baykov.
[2] Upon graduating from university in 1918, Trifonov was appointed by the Petrograd regional committee for the supply of the Red Army to oversee its laboratory.
[4] Trifonov defended his doctoral dissertation, Physical and chemical analysis of binary liquid systems in the form of surface tension isotherms, in 1940 in Rostov-on-Don.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who was a student at Rostov University from 1936 to 1941, described in his seminal work, The Gulag Archipelago, how the conviction impacted Trifonov's personality.