Bogdan Baranowski

Bogdan Baranowski (born October 27, 1927 in Kępno ; † June 29, 2014 in Warsaw ) was a Polish physical chemist who dealt with systems of hydrogen and metals at high pressures and with non-equilibrium thermodynamics .

Life

Baranowski studied chemistry from 1947 at the University of Breslau ( Wrocław ) with a diploma in 1951 and was there from 1949 to 1954 research assistant. 1954 to 1956 he was an assistant in the department of theoretical chemistry at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He received his doctorate in 1956 at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, where he was professor from 1964 and head of the Department of Physical Chemistry of Solids, which he headed until 1997. From 1973 to 1977 he was Vice Director of the institute.

At the end of the 1950s and in the 1970s and 1980s he was a visiting scientist at the Université libre de Bruxelles with Ilja Prigogine (with whom he worked closely on non-equilibrium thermodynamics), 1965 in Amsterdam, 1971/72 at the Bergakademie Freiberg (as deputy director) , 1984 and 1986 at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, 1987/88 at the University of Belfast and since the 1970s at the Technical University of Gothenburg (visiting professor 1985).

He developed a theory of electro-thermal diffusion, especially in metals and metal hydrides, and demonstrated its usefulness in the separation of chemical substances (e.g. deuterium from normal hydrogen). He examined chaos in electrochemical systems (in an analogue of the Benard problem ) and wrote a monograph on irreversible thermodynamics, which was also translated into German. He developed high pressure techniques for the synthesis of hydrides of nickel, chromium, manganese and aluminum and was a pioneer in the study of hydrogen in metals under high pressure. He studied phase transitions of metal hydrides under high pressure and organic synthesis under high pressure.

He is the author and co-author of over 340 scientific papers and has had over 20 doctoral students.

In 1973 he received the Marie Curie Prize of the Polish Academy of Sciences, in 1973 the Burke Medal of the Faraday Society, in 1956 the Prize of the Polish Chemical Society and in 1984 its Sniadecki Medal and in 1994 the Prize of the Prime Minister of Poland. In 1995 he received the Bridgman Award and in 1998 the Wilhelm Jost Memorial Medal . He has been a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences since 1974 (of which he chaired the chemistry committee from 1981 to 1983), of the Leopoldina since 1976 , of the Warsaw Scientific Society since 1981 , the International Academy of Sciences and since 1994 of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.

From 1974 to 1979 he was President of the Polish Chemical Society, of which he has been an honorary member since 1987 and honorary president since 1997. From 1989 to 1993 he was President of the International Association for Advancement of High Pressure Science and Technology (AIRAPT), after serving as Vice President from 1981 to 1985. He has been a member of the Society of German Chemists since 1990 and received an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Gothenburg in 1983. He is a member of the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry.

For a long time he was co-editor of the Polish Journal of Chemistry (before 1991 Roczniki Chemii ), from 1991 as main editor, and was co-editor of the Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics , Journal of Alloys and Compounds and High Pressure Research .

Fonts

• Non-equilibrium thermodynamics in physical chemistry , VEB Deutscher Verlag für Grundstofftindustrie, Leipzig 1975 (Polish original Warsaw 1974)
• Metal-Hydrogen Systems at High Pressures , in Topics in Applied Physics , Volume 29, Hydrogen in Metals II (G.Alefeld, J. Völkl, editor), Springer Verlag, 1978, pp. 157-200.
• Dissipative structures as an energetic problem , Nova Acta Leopoldina NF, Volume 60, 1989, pp. 91-107
• with SM Filipek: Synthesis of Metal Hydrides in J. Jurczak, B. Baranowski (editors) High Pressure Chemical Synthesis , Elsevier, Amsterdam 1989, pp. 55-100
• Diffusion in Elastic Media with Stress Fields , in S. Sieniutycz, P. Salamon (Editor) Advances in Thermodynamics, Flow, Diffusion and Rate Processes , Taylor and Francis, New York 1992, pp. 168-199
• A simplified quantitative approach to the isothermal hysteresis in metallic hydrides with coherent interphases- , J. Alloys and Compounds, Volume 200, 1993, pp. 87-92

Web links

• Homepage ( Memento from July 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
• Professor Bogdan Baranowski (PDF; 53 kB)
• Literature by and about Bogdan Baranowski in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Winfried R. Pötsch, Annelore Fischer and Wolfgang Müller with the collaboration of Heinz Cassebaum : Lexicon of important chemists . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig, 1988, p. 26, ISBN 3-323-00185-0 .