Kazimierz Jabłczyński

Kazimierz Jabłczyński (born March 25, 1869 in Warsaw , † October 12, 1944 in Milanówek ) was a Polish chemist.

Life

Jabłczyński studied chemistry at the ETH Zurich from 1889 to 1892 , then worked at a laboratory for chemical analysis in Warsaw and from 1901 to 1905 as the editor of a Polish chemical journal. From 1906 to 1908 he continued his studies at the University of Heidelberg , received his doctorate in 1908 at the University of Friborg and in 1912 became an assistant at the University of Basel . In 1913/14 he was in a private laboratory in Warsaw and from 1915 lecturer, from 1918 extraordinary and from 1924 full professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Warsaw . In 1939, after the German occupation, he lost his office and his newly established chemistry laboratory at the university burned down during the fighting. During the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, he was picked up by a German military patrol and killed after trying to bring the new building plans for his institute to safety.

He dealt with the kinetics of colloids , autocatalysis and the kinetics of solutions. In the 1930s, he investigated luminescence in chemical reactions (e.g. crystallization luminescence) and used photography as an aid. He also calculated coefficients of the Van der Waals equation .

literature

• Annelore Fischer: Kazimierz Jablczynski . In: Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists . Harri Deutsch, 1989, p. 220.