Biography Guiton de Morva Louis Bernard

Guiton de Morva Louis Bernard (04/01/1737 – 02/01/1816), French chemist and politician. On the formation of a lawyer. During the French Revolution was a deputy of the Legislative Assembly (1791-92) and the National Convention (1792-95). From 1794 Professor of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, since 1795 Member of the Institute of France, since 1800 manager of the mint business and after restoration of the Bourbons in 1814, was dismissed from service, as voted for the execution of Louis XVI. Guiton de Morva worked on Applied Chemistry: introduced in France, output of pig iron in coke (1771), organized the production of nitrate in Dijon (1778-80), proposed a new method of disinfection – fumigation with chlorine (1773). First Guiton de Morva was a staunch supporter of the phlogiston theory, in 1786 joined the antiflogisticheskim views Lavoisier.
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Biography Khariton Julia Borisovich

Chariton Julius B. (14 (27) .02.1904), Soviet physicist, academician of the USSR (1953, corresponding member of the 1946). Three times Hero of Socialist Labor. A member of the CPSU since 1956.
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By Claude-Louis Berthollet Biography

Berthollet, Claude Louis (12/09/1748 – 11/06/1822), a French chemist, founder of the theory of chemical equilibrium, tsp. Paris Academy of Sciences (1785). Professor of Chemistry in the Normal and the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris (1794). In 1770 a doctorate in medicine in Turin, Berthollet began working in pharmacies, in 1772 moved to Paris. In 1785, the first of the chemists joined antiflogisticheskim views Lavoisier.
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Biography of Aleksandr Mikhailovich Zaitsev

Alexander Zaitsev (20.06 (02.07) .1841 – 19.08 (01.09) .1910), Russian organic chemist, corresponding member Petersburg AN (1885). Pupil AM Butlerov. Upon completion of Kazan University he worked (1862-65) in the laboratories Kolbe and Wurtz.
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Biography Gorbov Alexander Ivanovich

Gorbov Alexander (11 (23) .05.1859 – 01.26.1939), Soviet chemist. He graduated in 1882, St. Petersburg University, a student of AM Butlerov.
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Biography Voronkevicha Sergei Dmitrievich

Voronkevich Sergey (09/23/1931) – engineer-geologist, soil expert, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences (1976), Professor of Engineering Geology and protection of geological environment (in 1977), Head. problem laboratory studies of the influence of geological factors on the physico-chemical grouting for Geological Faculty of Moscow State University (1969), Chairman of the Board for the Protection of Ph.D. theses in engineering geology and Permafrost, the Commission on artificial grouting of the Scientific Council of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology of the USSR, member of the Board of the Moscow City and the USSR on "rational use and protection of the geological environment in the territory of Moscow and the forest-park belt". He was born in Kuibyshev Agricultural Institute Professor, in 1949, he graduated from high school in Kuibyshev Agricultural Institute and in the same year he entered the Faculty of Geology, Moscow State University, graduating in 1954, specializing in Soil. " After graduation, he entered graduate school at the department of soil science, and engineering geology to prof.
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Biography Peskov Nikolai Petrovich

Peskov, Nikolai Petrovich (06 (18) .01.1880 – 15.06.1940) – Soviet chemist, a specialist in the field of colloid chemistry. Studied at the Moscow Higher Technical College, graduated in 1912 Breslavlsky University. In 1914 -17 he worked at Moscow University and Professor Polytechnic Institute in Omsk (1917-20) and Ivanov (1920-27) in 1920-40 – Professor of Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology.
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Biography Barsanova George Pavlovich

Barsanov George P. (12/29/1907 – 12/11/1991) – mineralogist, a historian of science, Honoured Scientist of the RSFSR (1969), Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences (1948), Professor of Mineralogy, Moscow State University (1953), Head. Department of Mineralogy, Geological Faculty of Moscow State University (1953-1986), dean of the Geological Faculty of Moscow State University (1957-1962), director of the Mineralogical Museum of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Fersman (1952-1976), vice president of the International Mineralogical Association (1960-1964), member of the Academic Council of Moscow University (1957-1962), Chairman of the Academic and Methodological Councils of the Geological Faculty of Moscow State University (1957-1962), the Academic Council of on candidate and member of the Academic Council for the Protection of doctoral theses in the Geological Faculty of Moscow State University, a member of the Expert Committee WAC USSR (1958-1965), member and deputy.
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Biography of Justus Liebig

Justus von Liebig (Liebig) (1803 – 1873) – chemist. Initial education in the Darmstadt school. University education received (1819 – 1822) in Bonn and Erlangen.

In 1822, he moved to Paris, where, thanks to his scientific work, provided the French Aqd. sciences, was known Alexander von Humboldt, through which entered into close relations with the Gay-Lussac.
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Biography of Wilhelm Ostwald

Ostwald, Wilhelm (1853) – Modern German chemist, was born in Riga in 1875, completed the course in Dorpat (now Yurievskoye) University. In 1882 he was a professor at Riga Polytechnic. In 1887 he was invited to Leipzig, where he was headed Chemical Institute of Leipzig University.
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