Jan Zaleski

Jan Zaleski
Jan Zaleski
Born	8 March 1869; Kalwaria, Congress Poland
Died	22 August 1932 (aged 63); Warsaw, Republic of Poland
Known for	Contributions to the field of blood chemistry
	Scientific career
Fields	Biochemistry
Institutions	Agrarian University of Dublany; Medical Institute for Women; PetrogradWarsaw University;

Jan Zaleski (born March 8, 1869 in Kalwaria near Augustów (modern-day Lithuania), in the Kingdom of Poland – d. August 22, 1932 in Warsaw, Republic of Poland) was a Polish biochemist who made significant contributions to the understanding of blood chemistry.

Career

From 1904–1907, Zaleski was a lecturer at the Agrarian University of Dublany, near Lviv.[1] From 1907–1918, Zaleski worked at the Medical Institute for Women in Petrograd, starting out as a laboratory assistant and becoming Professor of General and Organic Chemistry in 1916. From 1922 until his death in 1932, Zaleski was Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Toxicology at Warsaw University. He became a member of the Polish Academy of Learning in 1921.

Research

Between 1895 and 1901, Zaleski conducted research with Marceli Nencki on the ammonia content of blood and on conversions of blood pigments. In 1907, Zaleski published an empirical formula of mesoporphyrin. In 1924, he co-authored with Kazimierz Lindenfeld a method to obtain hemin.[2]

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References

"Zaleski Jan". Nowa encyklopedia powszechna PWN. 6 (1 ed.). Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN. 1997. p. 970. ISBN 83-01-11969-1.
"Zaleski Jan". Internetowa encyklopedia PWN (in Polish). Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN. Retrieved 2007-09-22.

External links

"Esterification of Hæmin". Journal of the Chemical Society, Abstracts (PDF). Royal Society of Chemistry. 1925. pp. 88–89. doi:10.1039/CA9252800001.

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[1] "ZALESKI, Jan (Database entry): Scientific relations in the 19th century between Germany and Russia in the fields of chemistry, pharmacy and medicine". Saxon Academy of Sciences, Leipzig.

[2] ""O esteryfikacji heminy" (Sur l'éthérification d'hémine), Zaleski J. and Lindenfeld K., pp.31-62 Annals of Chemistry (Roczniki Chemji), Polish Chemical Society (Polskiego towarzystwa chemicznego) [In Polish]" (PDF).