Gusztáv Buchböck

Gusztáv Buchböck , also Gustav, (born February 15, 1869 in Pozsony , † October 1, 1935 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian chemist ( physical chemistry ).

Buchböck received his doctorate from the University of Budapest in 1896. From 1902 he was an adjunct to Professor Carl von Than and also taught chemistry in schools. He also studied in Germany from 1905 to 1907 with Wilhelm Ostwald and Walther Nernst . In 1904 he became a private lecturer at the University of Budapest and in 1909 an associate professor and in 1914 a full professor. He was director of the 3rd Chemical Institute or the 3rd Chemical Department, which was created after the death of Carl von Than in 1908, while the chair was divided into two parts.

He developed a method of determining the number of hydrate molecules of ions and dealt with reaction kinetics (for example, relationships between reaction rate and viscosity).

Buchböck was modest and was considered extremely conscientious, who for this reason published little. Again and again, he found reasons to delay publication among his students, because this and that question still had to be clarified. He used to smoke a pipe all the time and was nicknamed The Great Silent One , but was considered a walking encyclopedia of chemistry with a very good knowledge of literature.

During the First World War and immediately before and after it, he promoted George de Hevesy , who received his habilitation with him in 1913, as a student of Ernest Rutherford, brought new ideas from radiochemistry and nuclear physics and allowed him to set up a radiochemical laboratory in his institute.

In 1907 he became a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. From 1926 to 1935 he was co-editor of the magazine Magyar Chemiai .

One of his students is János Proszt , who was also his successor at the chair. Even Michael Polanyi was his graduate student.

Fonts

• A carbonyl sulfide hydrolytes bomlásának sebességéről (1896)
• Az ion elmélet (Budapest, 1903)
• Általános és inorganicikus chemia (1914)
• Physikai-chémiai mérőmódszerek (1921)
• Organikus chemia (1930)

Web links

• Theoretical Chemistry Genealogy Project
• Hungarian biography with photo
• Literature by and about Gusztáv Buchböck in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ferenc Szabadváry : János Proszt (1892-1986).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (German, PDF; 600 kB)