Anna Feodorovna Volkova

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Anna Fjodorovna Wolkowa ( Russian Анна Фёдоровна Волкова ; † 1876 in St. Petersburg ) was a Russian chemist .

Life

Since women were not allowed to study in the Russian Empire , Volkova acquired her knowledge in St. Petersburg in the late 1860s in the public courses of the professors at the University of St. Petersburg .

From 1869 Wolkowa worked with Pawel Alexandrowitsch Latschinow in Alexander Nikolajewitsch Engelhardt's laboratory in the St. Petersburg Forest Institute and from 1870 in Pyotr Arkadjewitsch Kotschubei's laboratory and in the laboratory of the University of St. Petersburg with Alexander Mikhailovich Butlerow . She was the first woman in the world to receive a diploma in chemistry . Under Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev's direction, she carried out practical exercises for the students in the St. Petersburg public Vladimir courses .

In 1870, the journal for chemistry published an article about the pure ortho- toluenesulfonic acid and its chlorine anhydride and amide , which was first produced by it and which were later used as the basis for saccharin production. Volkova was one of the greatest experts in the study of toluenesulfonic acids. She received para- tricresyl phosphate , which was later used as a plasticizer in the plastics industry. Because of her work, she was the first woman to be accepted into the Russian Chemical Society. In the journal of the Russian Chemical Society she published about 20 specialist articles from 1870–1873.

Volkova died of illness and poverty.

The Venus crater Volkova bears Volkova's name.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Волкова (Анна Федоровна) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . tape I , 1905, p. 451 ( Wikisource [accessed February 7, 2020]).
  2. ↑ a b c Mary RS Creese ,: EARLY WOMEN CHEMISTS IN RUSSIA: ANNA VOLKOVA, IULIIA LERMONTOVA , AND NADEZHDA ZIBER-SHUMOVA . In: Bull. Hist. Chem. Band 21 , 1998, pp. 19–24 ( [1] [PDF; accessed February 7, 2020]).
  3. ↑ a b Д. Н. Трифонов: Первые женщины - химики России (accessed February 7, 2020).
  4. ↑ a b Русская история в портрете: Волкова Анна Федоровна (accessed February 7, 2020).
  5. ↑ a b c Famous women chemists. Chemists from Russia. Ancient Scientists (accessed February 7, 2020).
personal data
SURNAME Volkova, Anna Feodorovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Волкова, Анна Фёдоровна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian chemist
DATE OF BIRTH 18th century or 19th century
DATE OF DEATH 1876
Place of death St. Petersburg