Jozef Zawadzki
Józef Zawadzki (born July 14, 1886 in Warsaw ; † February 22, 1951 there ) was a Polish chemist (technical chemistry).
Life
Zawadzki studied chemistry and chemical engineering in Warsaw, Krakow and at the TH Karlsruhe and received his doctorate in Krakow in 1910. He then worked as an assistant in Karlsruhe and a chemist, and ultimately headed a sulfuric acid factory. In 1915 he became an assistant for general chemistry at the Polytechnic (now Warsaw University of Technology ) in Warsaw and also held lectures on physical chemistry from 1916 to 1918 at the University of Warsaw and at the Polytechnic. In 1918/19 he was a deputy chair (inorganic technical chemistry) and in 1923 he completed his habilitation, after which he was associate professor and from 1929 full professor at the Polytechnic. From 1936 to 1939 he was rector there. During the German occupation in World War II he helped to organize the underground polytechnic and after the war he was involved in the reconstruction of the polytechnic in the Council of the Ministry of Education and as a scientist in the reconstruction and development of the chemical industry in Poland. The oldest lecture hall in the Polytechnic is named after him.
Initially he dealt with chemical problems in the Polish coal industry (such as anthracene ), naphthalenes , with oxidation of ammonia (on platinum at low temperature) and extraction of sulfuric acid and cement from gypsum, extraction of aluminum oxide from Polish kaolin and aluminum silicate, later with Solid-state reactions and thermal dissociation of solids.
During the Second World War he was involved in Operation Most III of the Polish Resistance (1943/44), during which V-2 parts were captured and tested (the rockets partly went down in Poland after tests in Peenemünde) and one specimen in July 1944 flown to Great Britain. Zawadzki and his colleague from the Polytechnic Marceli Struszyński (1880–1959) analyzed the fuel of the V-2.
He was president of the Polish Chemical Society and he was a member of the Polska Akademia Umiejętności (PAU). In 1947 he received an honorary doctorate from the Polytechnic.
His daughter Anna Zawadzka (1919-2004) was active in the scout movement, teacher, author and involved in the Warsaw Uprising. His son Tadeusz Zawadzki (1921–1943) was one of the leaders of Operation Arsenal of the Polish Resistance in 1943 (successful liberation of prisoners like Jan Bytnar from Gestapo custody ). He was killed soon after in a commando operation in the Polish underground.
Fonts
- Technologia chemiczna nieorganiczna, 2 volumes, 1948/49
literature
- Józef Zawadski, in: Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 464
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zawadzki, Józef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 1951 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |