Nikolai Nikolayevich Beketov

Beketov

Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Beketow ( Russian: Николай Николаевич Бекетов , scientific transliteration Nikolaj Nikolayevich Beketov ; * January 1 ^July / January 13,  1827 ^greg. In Alfjorjewka; † November 30 ^jul. / December 13,  1911 ^greg. In Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian chemist .

Life

He graduated from Kazan State University in 1849 . After returning to Saint Petersburg, he worked with Nikolai Zinin in his medical laboratory for four years . In 1855 he became a research assistant in the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Kharkiv . From 1859 to 1886 he taught as a professor at this university . In 1886 he moved back to Saint Petersburg, where he worked in the university's chemistry laboratory and lectured at the university for women . In 1890 he gave lectures on "Basics of Thermochemistry " at Lomonossow University in Moscow .

Between 1859 and 1865, Beketow proved that aluminum is able to leach other metals from their oxides at high temperatures . In later years these experiments served as the starting point for the development of aluminothermics .

Honors

The lunar crater Beketov was named after him.

literature

• "Research on the displacement phenomenon in metals" ("Исследования над явлениями вытеснения одних металлов другими"), doctoral thesis 1849

Individual evidence

1. ^ Winfried R. Pötsch, Annelore Fischer and Wolfgang Müller with the collaboration of Heinz Cassebaum : Lexicon of important chemists . Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1988, p. 37, ISBN 3-323-00185-0 .
2. ↑ Clemens Winkler: About the reduction of oxygen compounds by magnesium In: Reports of the German chemical society. 23, 1890, pp. 2642-2668, doi : 10.1002 / cber.189002302161 .