Vyacheslav Yevgenyevich Tishchenko
Vyacheslav Evgenevich Tishchenko ( Russian Вячеслав Евгеньевич Тищенко , English transcription Viacheslav Evgenevich Tishchenko ; born August 7, 1861 in Saint Petersburg ; † February 25, 1941 in Leningrad ) was a Russian chemist.
Tishchenko studied chemistry at the University of Saint Petersburg from 1879 and received his doctorate in 1884 (candidate title). He was then from 1884 to 1888 assistant to Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev . There he was from 1893 private lecturer and from 1896 professor for analytical and technical chemistry. In 1899 he received his master's degree. He taught in Saint Petersburg until 1941. In addition to his university professorship, he was professor of general and organic chemistry at the Medical Institute for Women's Education and from 1918 head of a laboratory at the State Institute for Applied Chemistry.
He investigated the chemical composition of petroleum, the composition of resins and turpentine, the catalytic conversion of pines to camphene , and dealt with industrial glass, porcelain production, iodine extraction from algae, apatite processing and methods of pure production of reagents.
The Claisen-Tischtschenko reaction (production of esters from aldehydes), which he developed in his dissertation in 1906, and the aldol-Tischtschenko reaction are named after him and Ludwig Claisen .
In 1928 he became a corresponding and in 1935 full member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences . In 1941 he received the Stalin Prize .
literature
- Entry in: Winfried Pötsch, Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists. Harri Deutsch, Thun / Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-8171-1055-3 .
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| SURNAME | Tishchenko, Vyacheslav Evgenyevich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tishchenko, Vyacheslav Evgenyevich; Тищенко, Вячеслав Евгеньевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 7, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 1941 |
| Place of death | Leningrad |