Adam Wladislawowitsch Rakowski

Adam Wladislawowitsch Rakowski , Russian Адам Владиславович Раковский , (born December 24, 1879 in Międzyrzec Podlaski , † June 7, 1941 in Moscow ) was a Russian chemist ( physical chemistry ).

Rakowski studied chemistry and natural sciences at Lomonosov University from 1899 to 1903 and then initially worked in the laboratory of the Ministry of Finance. In 1915 he became a private lecturer, was laboratory director from 1917 and in 1922 professor of inorganic chemistry at Lomonossow University in Moscow. In 1929 he took over the chair for inorganic chemistry and in 1930 that for physical chemistry. From 1919 to 1941 he also worked at the Institute for Reactions of Pure Chemicals, where he dealt with analytical chemistry (degrees of purity of alcohols, salts, precious metals) and was temporarily involved in the management of a chemical factory.

Rakowski initially dealt with chain reactions and from 1905 to 1913 with adsorption and desorption on colloids. He later built a chemical thermodynamics laboratory at Lomonosov University.

In 1932 he applied solubility diagrams of salts in industry, he investigated heterogeneous equilibria at high temperatures, partial pressures of binary mixtures with development of measurement methods of high pressures at high temperatures, investigation of trinary mixtures of salts and water and the theory of heteropolar bonding.

Fonts

• Adsorption . (Russian), 1913.

literature

• Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists . Harry Deutsch, 1989, p. 353 (as Adam Vladislavovic Rakovskij).