Vladimir Nikolayevich Ipatiev

Vladimir Ipatieff ( Russian Владимир Николаевич Ипатьев , after emigrating under the name Vladimir Ipatiev ; also Ipatieff, born November 9 ^{. Jul} / 21st November 1867 ^greg. In Moscow ; † 29. November 1952 in Chicago , Illinois) was a Russian Chemist.

biography

Ipatiev was a professor in Saint Petersburg from 1898 . Before the October Revolution , he was Lieutenant General in the Tsarist Army and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences . After the revolution, Ipatiev established several chemical research centers in the USSR . In 1923 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1929 he received the Lenin Prize . In 1930 he left the Soviet Union and accepted a chair at Northwestern University in Chicago. There he also worked as an industrial chemist for the Universal Oil Products Company .

He worked in the fields of heterogeneous catalysis, explosives, petrochemicals and high pressure chemistry.

In 1897 Ipatjew produced isoprene . In 1904 he constructed the Ipatjew bomb named after him , an autoclave.

In 1939 Ipatyev was elected to the National Academy of Sciences , in 1940 he received the Willard Gibbs Medal .

Publications

Petroleum and its creation (1922)
Catalytic Reactions at High Pressures and Temperatures (1936)
My life in the United States: The memoirs of a chemist. - Evanston: Northwestern univ., 1959. - 200 с.
The Life of a Chemist: Memoirs of Vladimir N. Ipatieff. - Stanford University Press, 1946.

literature

National Research Council: Biographical memoirs. V. 47. National Academies Press, 1975, pp. 83 ff, ISBN 978-0-309-02245-3 . (English)
Philip G. Jessop, Walter Leitner: Chemical Synthesis Using Supercritical Fluids . Wiley-VCH, 1999, ISBN 3-527-29605-0 , pp. 500 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Vladimir Ipatyev - biography. Retrieved May 13, 2018 (Russian).
↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 121.

personal data
SURNAME	Ipatiev, Vladimir Nikolayevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ипатьев, Владимир Николаевич (Russian); Ipatiev, Vladimir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 21, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moscow
DATE OF DEATH	November 29, 1952
Place of death	Chicago , Illinois

[ipat-1] Vladimir Ipatyev - biography. Retrieved May 13, 2018 (Russian).

[2] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 121.