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Fajans, Kasimir
(b. Warsaw, Russian Poland, 27 May 1887; d. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 18 May 1975)
chemistry.
The son of Herman Fajans, a merchant, and Wanda Wolberg, Kasimir Fajans graduated from high school in Warsaw (1904), and then left Russian Poland to study at the universities of Leipzig (bachelor’s degree, 1907) and Heidelberg (doctorate, 1909). Then came a year of research at Zurich, followed by a second research year (1910–1911) in Ernest Rutherford’s laboratory at the University of Manchester. In 1910 Fajans married Salomea Kaplan, a physician. They had two sons, Edgar and Stefan.
Rutherford and his laboratory attracted some of the best researchers in radioactivity. Since the subject straddled the line between physics and chemistry, generally at least one radiochemist was to be found there. Fajans’ interest in radioactivity had been ignited in 1909 by Philipp Lenard. Who suggested that he report on the subject for his physics colloquium. This was far afield from the physical-organic topic in stereochemical catalysis that Fajans pursued under Georg Bredig for his doctorate. During the year with Richard Willstätter in Zurich, Fajans became interested in the binding forces in carbon compounds. But he also became convinced that he was more interested in physics, p
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Polish physicists delighted the move along in physics (1870‒1920)
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Great Polish chemists – everything you need to know about their achievements
The history of Polish chemists and their most important discoveries
Since the time when Jędrzej Śniadecki wrote the first chemistry textbook in Poland (published in 1807), the work of chemists has changed dramatically. The current, ultra-modern laboratories and research centres, supported by innovative technologies and advanced equipment, provide incomparably greater opportunities than those of the father of Polish chemistry, the author of the foundations of the national chemical terminology. Śniadecki’s scientific achievements are an inspiration for many other prominent scientists, such as Ignacy Łukasiewicz, the founder of the oil industry, and Maria Skłodowska-Curie, who discovered two radioactive elements and is the first female Nobel Prize winner in history.
The scale of the achievements of Polish scientists is best seen in retrospect. Today, we cannot imagine the conquest of space without rocket fuel, in which the function of the oxidant is carried out by liquefied oxygen, first obtained in this form in 1883 by Karol Olszewski and Zygmunt Wróblewski. Furthermore, learning about the structure of haemoglobin – one of the most important components of blood – would never ha