Anatoli Fedorovich Kapustinskii

Anatoly Fyodorovich Kapustinski (Russian Анатолий Фёдорович Капустинский; * 16 Dezemberjul / December 29 1906greg in Żytomierz, Poland, .. † August 26, 1960 in Moscow ) was a Polish- Russian chemist. He derived the Kapustinskii equation that allows the estimation of the lattice energy of ionic crystals.

Life

Kapustinski attended from 1914 in Warsaw high school, 1922, he graduated from secondary school in Moscow. From 1923 he studied chemistry at the Lomonosov Moscow State University and completed his studies in 1929. From 1929 to 1941 he worked in Moscow at the Institute of Applied Mineralogy. In 1935, he had a business trip in Western Europe and the United States, there for half a year together with Gilbert Newton Lewis at the University of California.

Kapustinski was from 1933-1937 professor and director of the Section of Physical Chemistry at the State university- Gorky. After that he worked between 1937-1941 at the Moscow State Institute of Steel and Alloys and between 1941-1943 at the Kazan State University. Since 1943 he was at the Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry at the Chemo -Technical Institute " D. I. Mendeleev "in Moscow worked. 1939 Kapustinski Corresponding became a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

From 1946 he was co-editor of Great Soviet Encyclopedia. In 1960 he was made an honorary member of the Polish Chemical Society.