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František (Franz) Wald (born January 9, 1861 in Brandýsek , Bohemia, † October 19, 1930 in Moravská Ostrava ) was a Czech chemist.

Life

His father came from Chemnitz and his mother from Neudeck in the north-west of Bohemia. In 1866 the family moved to Kladno as a result of the Prussian War . He studied technical chemistry at the German Technical University in Prague , took his first state examination in 1881 and left the university the following year without a degree, which was not required in industry at the time.

In 1882 he began in Kladno in the ironworks of the Prague Iron Industry Company / Pražská železářská společnost. The following year he married Josefa Radkovská, with whom he had five children. In 1886 he became chief chemist. He was an anti-atomist and in his spare time he wrote about thermodynamics and published in 1889 The Energy and Its Devaluation . In 1908, shortly after his wife died, he accepted the call from the Czech Technical University in Prague . Even at the beginning of his university career, he was a scientific loner. In 1909/10 and 1915/16 he was Dean of the Chemical Institute and in 1919/20 Rector of the University. In 1928 he fell ill and retired.

Publications (selection)

  • Essays 1891-1929. Philosophy of Chemistry. Wald Press, Prague 2009, ISBN 978-80-903931-6-5 .
  • Chemistry and its Laws. In: Journal of Physical Chemistry. Jg. 1, 1896/97, ISSN  0092-7325 , pp. 21-33, digitized .
  • Chemistry Fasi. Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Prague 1918 (1929 first preparation of the translation into German by František jr. And E. Klima).
  • Foundations of a Theory of Chemical Operations. In: Collection des travaux chimiques de Tchecoslovaquie. Vol. 3, 1931, ISSN  0366-547X , pp. 32-48.

literature

  • Jindřich Pinkava (Ed.): The Correspondence of the Czech Chemist František Wald with W. Ostwald , E. Mach , P. Duhem , JW Gibbs and other Scientists of that Time (= Rozpravy Československé Akademie Věd. Řada matematických a přirodních věd 97, 5, ISSN  0069-228X ). Academia Nakladatelství Československé Akademie Věd, Prague 1987.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BOHUSLAV BRAUNER: Prof. František Wald. In: Nature, 127, 64-65 (10 January 1931) doi : 10.1038 / 127064b0
  2. ^ Klaus Ruthenberg: Biography: František Wald (1861-1930) In: HYLE 13-1 (2007).
personal data
SURNAME Forest, František
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wald, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak chemist
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandýsek
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1930
Place of death Moravská Ostrava