Viktor Ivanovich Spitsyn
Viktor Ivanovich Spizyn , Russian Виктор Иванович Спицын , (born April 12 . Jul / 25. April 1902 greg. In Moscow , † the thirtieth January 1988 ) was a Russian chemist.
Spizyn studied physical chemistry at Lomonosov University from 1919 and was an assistant there from 1923, while also working in industry. From 1928 he was at the Institute for Applied Mineralogy and Non-Ferrous Metallurgy and from 1930 Professor at the Institute for Electrical Engineering. In 1932 he became a professor of inorganic chemistry at the State Pedagogical Institute in Moscow. In 1938 he received his doctorate (the award of doctoral degrees was suspended in the early phase of the Soviet Union) and from 1942 he was Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Lomonosov University. From 1943 he founded a department for radiochemistry there and in 1945 he completed his habilitation (Russian doctorate). In 1953 he became director of the Institute for Physical Chemistry at the Academy of Sciences and head of the Institute for Radiochemistry there.
At first he dealt with tungsten compounds and then, in cooperation with industry, with various rarely occurring but industrially important elements (beryllium, tantalum, molybdenum, rhenium, hafnium, cesium, thorium). In 1931 he obtained anhydrous aluminum chloride from natural raw materials. From 1942 he dealt with the chemistry of uranium and made important contributions to the nuclear energy program of the Soviet Union. He studied the kinetics of inorganic reactions with radioactive isotopes.
He was a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (full member from 1958). In 1969 he became a hero of socialist work. He was an honorary doctor in Leipzig and Breslau, an honorary member of the Polish Chemical Society and a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences . In 1983 he received the Mendeleev gold medal .
Fonts
- Radiochemistry 1952 (Russian)
- with others: Methods of using radioactive tracers (Russian), 1955
- Studies in the field of uranium chemistry, 1961 (Russian)
- with V. Gromov: Physico-chemical properties of radioactive solids (Russian), 1973
- with V. Gromov: Artificial Radionuclides in the Sea, 1975 (Russian)
- with LI Martynenko: Inorganic Chemistry, Moscow 1991, 1994 (Russian)
literature
- Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 403
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Spitsyn, Viktor Ivanovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Спицын, Виктор Иванович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 30, 1988 |
| Place of death | Moscow |