Open Access e-Journal Cardiometry - No.15 November 2019

Zafarjon and Zebo KUCHKAROV
(Tashkent, Uzbekistan):
ABILITY, TALENT OR GENIUS
Dear ladies and gentlemen!
Today I have a big surprise for you. For the first
time in 30 years, a 9-year-old boy and his 6-year-old
sister are participating in the Nobel Congress. Perhaps
they are the smallest chemists, future applicants for
the Nobel Prizes.
They are welcome! Children from Uzbekistan -
Zafarjon and Zebo Kuchkarov!
These children greatly surprised me at the first
meeting with them and their family in Tashkent, and
I invited them to the Congress. The children are the
future of Uzbekistan! I have no doubt that their first
steps to the Nobel Prizes are being implemented precisely
today in Tambov.
In Tashkent, I asked the children what they want
me to give them at the Nobel Congress. They replied
that I would give them a 25-volume collection of
works by D.I. Mendeleev, because they are fans of the
great Russian chemist. In a traditional paper form, this
publication was published in 1952, it is a bibliographic
rarity, and does not correspond to the interests of
young representatives of the modern information society.
Therefore, I give you this edition on a flash drive.
Now let me allow children to speak.
Professor V.M.Tyutyunnik
Zafarjon KUCHKAROV
Assalomu alaikum honimlar wa genoblar!
Good morning, Ladies and Gentlemen!
Let me introduce myself, my name is Zafarzhon
Odilovich Kuchkarov. I came from Uzbekistan. I am
9 years old. I study in Tashkent, in Mirzo Ulugbek
district, at school number 210. I have been studying
chemistry since I was four years old. It is a great honor
for me to be in Tambov, participate in the No-bel
Congress and speak among eminent scientists from
different regions.
Firstly, with great respect, I want to thank the founder
of the Nobel Prizes, Alfred Nobel, for com-bining
world science and creating a scientific atmos-phere in
the world. The Nobel Prize has the status of the most
prestigious award on the planet.
Secondly, I want to thank all the Nobelists for making
great discoveries and inventions that changed the
world. Thanks to the great scientist D.I. Mendeleev,
we are able to deeply understand the periodic sys-tem
of chemical elements. Thanks to Theodore Wil-liam
Richards, we know the exact atomic masses of chemical
elements, thanks to Edward Buchner, we learn about
biological chemistry and extracellular fermentation,
thanks to Edwin Mattison Macmillan and Glenn Theodor
Seborg, trans-uranium elements are discovered ...
Thirdly, I want to thank our esteemed Vyacheslav
Mikhailovich Tyutyunnik for opening the Interna-tional
Nobel Information Center. Thank you very
much! We study using your website.
I really like natural sciences, for example,
mathe-matics, physics, geology and chemistry. But,
first of all, I like chemistry. How do I understand
chemistry? I began to study chemistry with a periodic
system of chemical elements. At first, I studied
elements as letters. Before that I knew Latin letters.
When I was four years old, I already knew all the
chemical elements and wrote their names in Latin.
The first time I saw chemical elements in a pharmacy,
I asked my mother why the chemical elements potassium,
calcium, and magnesium are written here.
Mom explained to me that all the medicines, pills that
people take, are made up of chemical elements. From
that moment I began to be interested in chemistry.
Chemical elements have opened a new world for me.
Every day I see chemical elements around me. They
are everywhere in us and around us. Each of us sees
them daily. For example, we drink water every day.
Water consists of two ele-ments: hydrogen and oxy-
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