Wiktor Kemula

Viktor Kemula ( born November 6, 1902 in Izmail, † 17 October 1985 in Warsaw) was a Polish chemist and founder of the Polish School of polarography.

He was born in a Polish family in the city of Izmail in the Danube Delta, close to the Black Sea. In early youth he lost both parents. Nevertheless, he was a high school with honors and thanks to the scholarship, he began in 1921, the study of chemistry at the Lemberger Jan Kazimierz University. At 25, he became a doctor of chemical sciences.

1929-1930 he spent in Prague under Professor Jaroslav Heyrovsky at the Charles University, then in Leipzig with Professors Peter Debye and Fritz Weigert ( 1876-1947 ).

In 1936 he was appointed Chair of Physical Chemistry at the University of Lviv. In the same year he was elected a member of the Lviv Science Society.

During the Nazi occupation of Lviv he worked in a food factory.

On 1 July 1945 he was appointed professor at the University of Warsaw. In 1955 he was elected chairman of the Polish Chemical Society. In 1952 he became a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences ( PAN). In 1968, he stepped over into retirement. 1981-1985 he was chairman of the Warsaw Scientific Society. On 1 December 1982, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Warsaw.

Viktor Kemula was the inventor of the electrode with the hanging mercury drop ( hanging mercury drop electrode - HMDE ). He has thus contributed to the development of electro analytical chemistry, particularly polarography.

Kemula was a music lover and active operation chamber music. He died during a concert in Warsaw's Holy Cross Church.

Works

• Stanisław Tołłoczko Victor Kemula: chemia nieorganiczna z zasadami Chemii ogólnej, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa, 1954, 1964, 1966, 1970

Swell

• Biography of Prof. Kemula (*. Pdf) (1.58 MB)

• Chemists ( 20th century)
• University teachers (Lviv )
• University teachers (University of Warsaw)
• Born in 1902
• Died in 1985
• Man
• Pole
• Member of the Leopoldina ( 20th century)