Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski

Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski (28 October 1845 – 16 April 1888) was a Polish physicist and chemist.

Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski
Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski
Born28 October 1845
Grodno
Died16 April 1888(1888-04-16) (aged 42)
Kraków
NationalityPolish
Alma materKiev University
Munich University
Known forcondensation
liquefaction
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
Physics

Biography

Wróblewski was born in Grodno (Russian Empire, now in Belarus). He studied at Kiev University. After a six-year exile for participating in the January 1863 Uprising against Imperial Russia, he studied in Berlin and Heidelberg. He defended his doctoral dissertation at Munich University in 1876 and became an assistant professor at Strasburg University. In 1880 he became a member of the Polish Academy of Learning.

Wróblewski was introduced to gas condensation in Paris by Professor Caillet at the École Normale Supérieure. When Wróblewski was offered a chair in physics at Jagiellonian University, he accepted. At Kraków he began studying gases and soon established a collaboration with Karol Olszewski.

While studying carbonic acid, Wróblewski discovered the CO2 hydrate. He reported this finding in 1882.[1][2][3]

On 29 March 1883 Wróblewski and Olszewski used a new method of condensing oxygen, and on 13 April the same year—nitrogen.[4]

In 1888, while studying the physical properties of hydrogen, Wróblewski upset a kerosene lamp and was severely burned. He died soon after at a Kraków hospital.

Karol Olszewski continued the experiments, using an improved Pictet cascade apparatus, and carbon dioxide, boiling ethylene in vacuum, and boiling nitrogen and boiling air as cooling agents.

He died on 16 April 1888 as a result of an accident in his laboratory in which he sustained serious injuries and was buried at the Rakowicki Cemetery in Kraków.[5]

In 1976, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) passed a decision to give the name of Wróblewski to one of the craters of the Moon in honour of the chemist.

Inscription in Polish and Latin:
"In this building
Karol Olszewski and
Zygmunt Wróblewski
professors at Jagiellonian University
in 1883
for the first time in the world liquefied
components of air
thereby opening to science and industry
new fields of research and application"

Books
  • Ueber die Diffusion der Gase durch absorbirende Substanzen (On the Diffusion of Gases through Absorbing Substances, 1874)
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See also

Notes
  1. S. Wroblewski (1882 a), "On the combination of carbonic acid and water" (in French), Acad. Sci. Paris, Comptes rendus, 94, pp. 212–213.
  2. S. Wroblewski (1882 b), "On the composition of the hydrate of carbonic acid" (in French), Acad. Sci. Paris, ibid., pp. 954–958.
  3. S. Wroblewski (1882 c), "On the laws of solubility of carbonic acid in water at high pressures" (in French), Acad. Sci. Paris, ibid., pp. 1355–1357.
  4. "A Tribute to Wróblewski and Olszewski" (PDF). Retrieved 28 February 2020.
  5. "Zygmunt Wróblewski - pierwszy skroplił tlen". Retrieved 29 February 2020.
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