Géza Schay (chemist)

Géza Schay (born May 26, 1900 in Vienna , † May 24, 1991 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian chemist ( physical chemistry ).

Life

Géza Schay studied chemistry from 1918 at the Eötvös Loránd University , where he received his doctorate in 1922 with a dissertation on the kinetic theory of osmotic pressure. He was then a chemist at the Hungarian State Chemical Institute in Budapest, where he became head chemist in 1934. In the 1920s he was also often at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Fiber Chemistry in Berlin with Michael Polanyi and dealt with crop protection. In 1929 he became a private lecturer and in 1939 an associate professor of physical chemistry at the University of Budapest. From 1943 to 1949 he headed the research laboratory of the Hungarian state rubber goods factory. In 1949 he became full professor of physical chemistry at the Technical University of Budapest and director of the Hungarian Research Institute for the Rubber Industry. From 1954 to 1969 he was director of the Central Institute for Chemistry of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and then a consultant there. In 1965 he retired from the Technical University of Budapest.

Schay first dealt with the chemistry of combustion in highly diluted gases and reactions in the gas phase, then with the physical properties of rubber and, after 1960, with gas chromatography . He also dealt with thermodynamics of adsorption.

He was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He received the Kossuth Prize .

Fonts

• Theoretical foundations of gas chromatography, Berlin: Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften 1960, 1961

literature

• Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 378
• Krisztina László-Nagya: Géza Schay 1900-1991, Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology, Volume 20, 1999, pp. 1681-1693

Web links

• Hungarian biography