Jakub Natanson
Jakub Natanson (born August 20, 1832 in Warsaw ; † September 14, 1884 , ibid) was a Polish chemist and banker .
Life
He was one of the discoverers of Fuchsin . Natanson also wrote the first textbook on organic chemistry in Polish. He was the son of a banker and from 1852 studied chemistry at the University of Dorpat with a master’s degree in 1856, where he synthesized fuchsin in the master’s thesis published in Liebigs Annalen in 1856. He then trained with leading chemists in Germany, France and Great Britain from 1858 to 1862 and in 1862 became professor of chemistry at the Szkoła Główna Warszawska in Warsaw . He gave up his professorship in 1866 to join the family bank (Bank Handlowy, today after the merger citi-Handlowy.) He was in the management of various companies (with interests in coal mining (near Sosnowiec ), paper, sugar, railways) and founded u. a. the industrial and agricultural museum.
In 1856 he found two new urea syntheses.
literature
- Entry in Winfried Pötsch, Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989
Publications
- On substitution of aldehyde radicals in ammonia. In: Annals of Chemistry and Pharmacy. 92, 1854, pp. 48-59, doi : 10.1002 / jlac.18540920105 .
- About the acetylamine and derivatives. // Liebigs Annalen 98 (1856);
- 1. About two new artificial forms of urea. In: Annals of Chemistry and Pharmacy. 98, 1856, pp. 287-291, doi : 10.1002 / jlac.18560980303 .
- 3. On the use of a modification of Gay-Lussac's method of vapor density determination for substances with a high boiling point. In: Annals of Chemistry and Pharmacy. 98, 1856, pp. 301-307, doi : 10.1002 / jlac.18560980305 .
- Most sensitive reaction to iron. In: Annals of Chemistry and Pharmacy. 130, 1864, pp. 246-246, doi : 10.1002 / jlac.18641300216 .
Web links
- Natanson Family IVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Natanson, Jakub |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish chemist |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1832 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
DATE OF DEATH | September 14, 1884 |
Place of death | Warsaw |