Eero Tommila

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Eero Akseli Tommila (born March 5, 1900 in Merikarvia , † October 25, 1968 in London ) was a Finnish chemist and professor at the University of Helsinki .

Eero Tommila in 1963.

academic career

Tommila comes from a farming family in western Finland, studied chemical history, organic chemistry and received his doctorate from Helsinki University in 1932 . His dissertation dealt with the electrochemical oxidation of dicarboxylic acids.

From 1930 to 1944 Eero Tommila was a lecturer at the seminary and the Pedagogical University in Jyväskylä . From 1938 to 1944 he was a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Helsinki and from 1944 to 1967 first professor of physical chemistry .

Tommila's main field of work and research focus was the effect of solvents on reaction rates, in particular the substitution effects of chemical reactions in different solvents; his chair was established in this field. Tommila's successor was Jouko Koskikallio from 1969 to 1990, who researched the reaction kinetics among other things at high air pressure and began photochemical studies in Finland.

Eero Tommila published in German, wrote the first academic textbook on physical chemistry in Finnish in several editions from the 1950s ( Fysikaalinen Kemia , Otava, 1st edition, Helsinki 1950) and later also wrote in English.

Private

Eero Tommila was married to Salli Anna Margareta, b. Niininen, and father of two children. His son is the academic Päiviö Tommila , historian, professor and rector of the University of Helsinki. His daughter is the artist / art teacher Eeva Tommila.

Publications (selection)

  • On the electrolytic oxidation of some aliphatic dicarboxylic acids , Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae. Series AT 36, No 1, Helsinki 1932 (Diss. Phil.)
  • On the electrolytic oxidation of glycolic acid in alkaline solution , Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Helsinki 1933
  • On the electrochemical oxidation of α-glycols , Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Helsinki 1934
  • Electrochemical experiments with α-oxy acids , Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Helsinki 1936
  • On the kinetics of the Cannizzaros reaction , Akateeminen Kirjakauppa, Helsinki 1942
  • On the hydrolysis of the dicarboxylic acid esters , Akateeminen Kirjakauppa, Helsinki 1942
  • Further experiments with substituted benzoic acid esters , Akateeminen Kirjakauppa, Helsinki 1942
  • Influence of the alcohol component in the alkaline hydrolysis of benzoic acid esters , Akateeminen Kirjakauppa, Helsinki 1942
  • (together with filosofian maisteri Salli Tommila) The alkaline hydrolysis of phthalic acid monoethyl esters , Akateeminen Kirjakauppa, Helsinki 1942
  • The alkaline hydrolysis of benzyl esters , Akateeminen Kirjakauppa, Helsinki 1942
  • The alkaline hydrolysis of some new substituted benzoic acid esters , Akateeminen Kirjakauppa, Helsinki 1945
  • Fysikaalinen Kemia , Otava, Helsinki 1950
  • The Influence of solvent on substituted effects in chemical reaction , Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Helsinki 1967
  • (together with Matti Savolainen and Ensio Lindqvist) The influence of the solvent on reaction velocity XLIII, the kinetics of the reactions of hydrochloric and hydrobromic acids with alcohols in mixed solvents that contain alcohol , Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae. Series A / 2, Chemica, Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Helsinki 1969 (posthumous)

literature

  • Koskikallio, Jouko: Tommila, Eero. Kansallisbiografia-Verkkojulkaisu. Studia Biographica 4. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 1997, ISSN 1799-4349
  • Ellonen, Leena (ed.): Suomen professorit 1640-2007 , p. 750. Helsinki: Professoriliitto, 2008. ISBN 978-952-99281-1-8 .
  • Tommila, Päiviö: Vihreän lampun taika - Eero Tommila, kemisti ("The magic of the green lamp - Eero Tommila, chemist") 2009

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the electrolytic oxidation of some aliphatic dicarboxylic acids , Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae. Series AT 36, No 1, Helsinki [Helsingfors] 1932 (Phil. Diss.)
  2. ↑ List of lecturers (Finnish)
  3. ↑ Ellonen, Leena (ed.): Suomen professorit 1640-2007, p 750. Helsinki: Professoriliitto, 2008. ISBN 978-952-99281-1-8
  4. ↑ Pekka Pyykkö: Luettelo Suomen kemian professoreista 1761–2000 (overview of the Finnish chemistry professors 1761–2000)
  5. ↑ Otavan Iso tietosanakirja, Vol. 8, p. 1505. Otava 1966
  6. ↑ Finnish history of chemistry, physical chemistry (Finnish)
  7. ↑ Photo of the laboratory
  8. ↑ A biography of the late Finnish professor for chemistry at Helsinki University Eero Tommila (1900–1968) Review (Finnish)
personal data
SURNAME Tommila, Eero
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tommila, Eero Akseli (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish chemist
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Merikarvia
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1968
Place of death London