Ferenc Szabadváry

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Ferenc Szabadváry (born September 1, 1923 in Kőszeg ; † May 21, 2006 ) was a Hungarian chemist and chemical historian .

Szabadváry graduated from the Technical University in Budapest in 1944 with a degree in chemical engineering . In the last years of the war he was evacuated to Dresden , where he witnessed the massive bombing raid of February 1945 . In 1949 he became a lecturer at the Technical University in Budapest, where he received his doctorate in 1965 and became an assistant professor. In 1970 he completed his habilitation and became professor of chemistry. In 1971 he also became director of the newly founded Hungarian National Museum of Science and Technology. In 1987 he became head of the department of general and analytical chemistry at the TU Budapest. In 1995 he retired.

He dealt with analytical chemistry (especially on rare earths ) and chemical history, initially with the history of chemistry in Hungary and the history of analytical chemistry. He wrote more than 200 articles on the history of chemistry and a book on the history of analytical chemistry and on Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier .

He was the author of a series on great moments in the history of chemistry on Hungarian radio and television, part of which was published in translation in the journal Chemistry of the American Chemical Society (ACS).

In 1970 he received the Dexter Award .

Fonts

  • History of analytical chemistry, Vieweg 1985
  • Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier. The researcher and his time 1743–1794, Stuttgart: Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft 1973
  • Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, biographies of outstanding natural scientists, technicians and medical professionals 84, Leipzig: Teubner 1987
  • Development of the pH concept, Journal of Chemical Education, Volume 41, 1965, pp. 105-107
  • Indicators: a historical perspective, Journal of Chemical Education, Volume 41, 1965, pp. 285-287

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personal data
SURNAME Szabadváry, Ferenc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian chemical historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Kőszeg
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 2006