Russian chemists have always stood out among others, because many of the most important discoveries belong to them. In chemistry lessons, students are told about the most prominent scientists in this field. But knowledge about the discoveries of our compatriots should be especially vivid. It was Russian chemists who compiled the most important table for science, analyzed the mineral obsidian, became the founders of thermochemistry, and became the authors of many scientific papers that helped other scientists advance in the study of chemistry.
Viktor Ivanov
Ivanov Viktor Petrovich - a famous Russian scientist, an honored chemist of Russia, as well as a candidate of technical sciences. Born in 1943, graduated from the University of Tomsk, and already in 1988 became Deputy Minister of the Chemical Industry of the Soviet Union.
In 2009 he became an honorary professor. Ivanov Viktor Petrovich devoted his whole life to chemistry, and then he began to get involved in petrochemistry. Viktor Petrovich is the author of many works, works, studies and essays.
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev is the most famous and outstandingRussian chemist. Every high 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. Eight children are reported to have died in infancy. In the year of Dmitri Mendeleev's birth, his father became blind and he had to leave the post of director of the school. It was then that all the care of the family went to Dmitry's mother. According to the historian, Mendeleev's mother was a very active and intelligent woman. She managed to take care of her family and manage a glass factory. True, she earned very little money: barely enough for food. Mother devoted a lot of time in the family to Dmitry, because she considered him an outstanding child. But at that time, her youngest son studied at school very poorly, he only liked the lessons of mathematics and physics.
Dmitry Mendeleev began to study well and be interested in scientific activities only at St. Petersburg University. After graduation, Dmitry worked as a teacher in Odessa, but then returned to St. Petersburg and continued to study physical chemistry.
Mendeleev made his first legendary discovery in Germany, in the city of Heidelberg. He experimentally discovered the critical temperature, which is also called the absolute boiling point. Then Dmitry Ivanovich worked in the field of physics and did a lot of experiments and research.
Unexpectedly Dmitryreturns to St. Petersburg, where he begins to lecture at the university on chemistry and physics. He pays special attention to organic chemistry. A few years later, he even publishes Russia's first textbook on organic chemistry. Dmitry is awarded the highest scientific award for this textbook.
In subsequent years, the scientist studied the similarities between such chemical elements as lithium, sodium and potassium, as well as between cob alt, manganese and iron. Then the scientist tried for the first time to create a table that would combine all the elements, but at that time nothing came of it. The scientist continued to study the chemical elements, dreaming of combining 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 the co-author of this periodic law, which was later refuted. After all, it was Mendeleev who was able to enter into the table not only existing substances, but also unknown to scientists at that time, which greatly helped the development of science. Dmitry Mendeleev was able to predict the existence of the elements, as well as distribute them in the right sequence, which forever made him the greatest chemist.
German Ivanovich Hess
German Ivanovich Hess is another famous Russian chemist. German was born in Geneva, but after studying at the university he was sent to Irkutsk, where he worked as a doctor. At the same time, the scientist wrote articles that he sent to journals specializing in chemistry and physics. Some time later, Hermann Hess taught chemistry to the famousEmperor Alexander Nikolaevich.
German Ivanovich Hess and thermochemistry
The main thing in the career of German Ivanovich was that he made many discoveries in the field of thermochemistry, which made him one of its founders. He discovered an important law called Hess' law. After some time, he learned the composition of four minerals. In addition to these discoveries, he explored minerals (engaged in geochemistry). In honor of the Russian scientist, they even named the mineral that was first studied by him - hessite. Hermann Hess is still considered a famous and revered chemist to this day.
Evgeny Timofeevich Denisov
Evgeny Timofeevich Denisov is an outstanding Russian physicist and chemist, however, very little is known about him. Eugene was born in the city of Kaluga, studied at the Moscow State University at the Faculty of Chemistry, specializing in physical chemistry. Then he continued his way in scientific activity. Evgeny Denisov has several published works, which have become very authoritative. He also has a series of works on the topic of cyclic mechanisms and several models built by him. The scientist is an academician at the Academy of Creativity, as well as at the International Academy of Sciences. Evgeny Denisov is a man who devoted his whole life to chemistry and physics, and also taught the younger generation these sciences.
Mikhail Degtev
Mikhail Degtev studied at the Perm University at the Faculty of Chemistry. A few years later he defended his dissertation and completed his postgraduate studies. He continued his activities at the Perm University, where he headed the research sector. For several years, the scientist conducted a lot of research 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 papers: research results, monographs, textbooks.
Despite the fact that the scientist is already 69 years old, he still works at Perm University, where he writes scientific papers, conducts research and teaches chemistry to the younger generation. Today, the scientist leads two research areas at the university, as well as the work and research of postgraduate and doctoral students.
Vladimir Vasilyevich 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 into a noble family. Already at the age of ten, Vladimir Vasilyevich began to study at the Nizhny Novgorod Noble Institute, where he graduated from gymnasium classes. After that, he studied at Kazan University, where Professor Butlerov, a famous Russian chemist, was his teacher. It was during these years that Vladimir Vasilyevich Markovnikov discovered his interest in chemistry. After graduating from Kazan University, Vladimir became a laboratory assistant and worked hard, dreaming of becoming a professor.
Vladimir Markovnikov studied isomerism and after a few years successfully defended his scientificwork on the isomerism of organic compounds. In this thesis, Professor Markovnikov already proved that such an isomerism exists. After that, he was sent to work in Europe, where he worked with the most famous foreign scientists.
Besides isomerism, Vladimir Vasilyevich also studied the chemical composition of oil. For several years he worked at Moscow University, where he taught the younger generation of chemistry and lectured to students in the Physics and Mathematics Department until old age.
Besides this, Vladimir Vasilievich Markovnikov also published a book, which he called "Lomonosov's collection". It presents almost all the famous and outstanding Russian chemists, and also tells about the history of the development of chemistry in Russia.
