Nikolai Cholodny

Nikolai Cholodny
Born22 June 1882
Tambov, Russian Empire
Died4 May 1953(1953-05-04) (aged 70)
Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
OccupationMicrobiologist
Known forCholodny–Went model

Nikolai Grigorievich Cholodny or Kholodny (Russian: Николай Григорьевич Холодный; Ukrainian: Микола Григорович Холодний, romanizedMykola Hryhorovych Kholodny; 22 June 1882 – 4 May 1953) was a Soviet microbiologist who worked at the University of Kiev during the 1930s.

He is known for the Cholodny–Went model, which he developed independently with Frits Warmolt Went of the California Institute of Technology. Despite being associated with the same theory, the two men never actually met.