Solomon Giller

SOLOMON ARONOVICH GILLER - Soviet (latvian) chemical science has suffered a great loss, Solomon Aronovich Giller, the prominent organic chemist, editor-in-chief of Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii (Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds), Academician-Secretary of the Division of Chemical and Biological Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR (AS of the Latvian SSR), and director of the Institute of Organic Synthesis of the AS of the Latvian SSR.

Professor Giller was born on January 14, 1915, in Riga; died on June 7, 1975, after a severe illness.