Famous Russian chemists, their contribution to science

Russian chemists Always stood out among others, because many of the most important discoveries belong to them. In chemistry lessons, students are told about the most outstanding scientists in this field. But the knowledge about the discoveries of our compatriots should be especially striking. It is Russian chemists Were the most important table for science, analyzed the obsidian mineral, became the founders of thermochemistry, and became the authors of many scientific works that helped advance other scientists in the study of chemistry.

Victor Ivanov

Ivanov Viktor Petrovich - a famous Russian scientist, is a deserved chemist of Russia, and also a candidate of technical sciences. He was born in 1943, graduated from the university in Tomsk, and in 1988 became deputy minister of chemical industry of the Soviet Union.

In 2009 he became an honorary professor. Throughout his life Ivanov Viktor Petrovich devoted chemistry, and then began to take a great interest in petrochemistry. Viktor Petrovich is the author of many works, works, studies and essays.

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

Dmitry Mendeleev is the most famous and outstanding Russian chemist. Every secondary school student in the world knows him. In addition to the fact that Dmitry Ivanovich made many discoveries in the field of chemistry and the chemical industry, he was also a geologist, mineralogist, economist and physicist.

Dmitry Ivanovich was born in Tobolsk in the family of a teacher. He was the youngest, seventeenth, child in the family. According to available information, eight children died in infancy. In the year of Dmitry Mendeleyev's birth, his father became blind and had to leave the post of director of the school. It was then that all the care for the family went to Dmitry's mother. According to the historian, Mendeleyev's mother was a very active and intelligent woman. She managed to take care of her family and manage the glass factory. True, she earned very little money: she barely had enough to eat. A lot of time in the family, the mother gave to Dmitry, because she considered him an outstanding child. But at that time her younger son was very bad at school, he liked only the lessons of mathematics and physics.

Dmitry Mendeleev began to study well and was interested in scientific activity only at the University of St. Petersburg. After his graduation, Dmitry worked as a teacher in Odessa, but then again returned to St. Petersburg and continued to study physical chemistry.

His first legendary discovery Mendeleyev made in Germany, in the city of Heidelberg. He experimentally discovered a critical temperature, which is also called the absolute boiling temperature. Then Dmitry Ivanovich worked in the field of physics and did many experiments and research.

Unexpectedly, Dmitry returns to St. Petersburg, where he begins to give lectures at the university on the topic of chemistry and physics. He pays special attention to organic chemistry. In a few years he even produces the first in Russia textbook on organic chemistry. For this textbook, Dmitry is awarded the highest scientific award.

In subsequent years, the scientist studied the similarities between such chemical elements as lithium, sodium and potassium, and also between cobalt, manganese and iron. Then the scientist tried to create for the first time a table that would unite all the elements, but at that time nothing came of it. The scientist continued to study chemical elements, dreaming to combine them into one table.

Among his most outstanding discoveries, Russian chemists singled out the periodic law of elements. In Germany, it was believed that Meyer was also a co-author of this periodic law, which was subsequently refuted. After all, Mendeleev was able to put into the table not only existing substances, but also at that time unknown to scientists, which greatly helped the development of science. Dmitry Mendeleev was able to predict the existence of elements, as well as distribute them in the right sequence, which forever made him the greatest chemist.

Herman Ivanovich Hess

German Ivanovich Hess is another famous Russian chemist. Herman was born in Geneva, but after studying at the university he was deported to Irkutsk, where he worked as a doctor. At the same time, the scientist wrote articles, which he sent to magazines specializing in chemistry and physics. After a while, Hermann Hess taught the chemistry of the famous emperor Alexander Nikolayevich.

Herman Ivanovich Hess and thermochemistry

The main thing in the career of Herman Ivanovich was that he made many discoveries in the field of thermochemistry, which made him one of its founders. He discovered an important law, which is called the law of Hess. After some time he learned the composition of the four minerals. In addition to these discoveries, he investigated minerals (he studied geochemistry). In honor of the Russian scientist, even a mineral was named, which was first studied by him-hessite. Hermann Hess and to this day is considered a famous and revered chemist.

Evgeny Timofeevich Denisov

Evgeny Timofeevich Denisov is an outstanding Russian physicist and chemist, however, very little is known about him. Evgeniy was born in the city of Kaluga, he studied at the Moscow State University at the chemical faculty, specializing in physical chemistry. Then he continued his career in scientific work. Evgeni Denisov has several printed works, which have become very authoritative. He also has a series of works on the theme of cyclic mechanisms and several models built by him. The scientist is an academician in the Academy of Creativity, as well as in the International Academy of Sciences. Yevgeny Denisov is a person who devoted his entire life to chemistry and physics, and also taught the young generation to these sciences.

Mikhail Degtev

Mikhail Degtev studied at the Perm University at the Faculty of Chemistry. A few years later, he defended his thesis and completed his postgraduate studies. He continued his work at Perm University, where he headed the research sector. For several years, the scientist conducted many studies at the university, and then became the head of the department of analytical chemistry.

Mikhail Degtev today

Degtev Mikhail Ivanovich published about 500 very important scientific works: research results, monographs, teaching aids.

Despite the fact that the scientist is already 69 years old, he is still working at the Perm University, where he writes scientific works, conducts research and trains chemistry of the younger generation. Today the scientist directs two scientific directions at the university, as well as the work and research of graduate students and doctoral students.

Vladimir V. Markovnikov

It is difficult to underestimate the contribution of this famous Russian scientist to such a science as chemistry. Vladimir Markovnikov was born in the first half of the 19th century in a noble family. Already at the age of ten, Vladimir Vasilievich began to study at the Nizhny Novgorod Nobility Institute, where he graduated from gymnasium classes. After that, he was trained at the Kazan University, where his teacher was Professor Butlerov, a famous Russian chemist. It was during these years that Vladimir Vasil'evich Markovnikov discovered an interest in chemistry. After graduating from Kazan University, Vladimir became a laboratory assistant and worked hard, dreaming of getting a professorship.

Vladimir Markovnikov studied isomerism and in a few years successfully defended his scientific work on the isomerism of organic compounds. In this dissertation, Professor Markovnikov has already proved that such isomerism exists. After that, he was sent to work in Europe, where he worked with the most famous foreign scientists.

In addition to isomerism, Vladimir Vasilievich also studied the chemical composition of oil. For several years he worked at the Moscow University, where he taught the younger generation of chemistry and taught his lectures to the students at the physics and mathematics department to his old age.

In addition, Vladimir Vasilievich Markovnikov also issued a book, which he called the "Lomonosov collection". Almost all the famous and outstanding Russian chemists are represented in it, as well as the history of the development of chemistry in Russia.