ZYGMUNT WRÓBLEWSKI PRESENTATION BY WERONIKA ZWIERZCHOWSKA
WHO IS WROBLEWSKI? ZYGMUNT FLORENTY WRÓBLEWSKI- WAS BORN IN GRODNO ON THE 28TH OCTOBER 1845 AND DIED ON THE 16TH APRIL 1882
(HE WAS 42 YEARS OLD). WAS A POLISH PHYSICIST AND CHEMIST. HE WAS AN INVENTOR OF CASCADE METHOD OF GAS LIQUEFACTION
BIOGRAPHY HE STUDIED AT KIEV UNIVERSITY. AFTER A SIX-YEAR EXILE FOR PARTICIPATING IN THE JANUARY UPRISING IN 1863 AGAINST IMPERIAL RUSSIA, HE STUDIED IN BERLIN AND HEIDELBERG. HE MADE 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 SCIENCE.
Kiev university
DISCOVERY
WHILE STUDYING CARBONIC ACID, WRÓBLEWSKI DISCOVERED THE CO2 HYDRATE. HE REPORTED THIS FINDING IN 1882. ON THE 29 MARCH 1883 WRÓBLEWSKI AND OLSZEWSKI USED A NEW METHOD OF CONDENSING OXYGEN, AND ON 13 APRIL THE SAME YEAR— NITROGEN.
MISFORTUNE
IN1888, WHILE STUDYING THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF HYDROGEN, WRÓBLEWSKI UPSET A KEROSENE LAMP AND WAS SEVERELY BURNED. HE DIED SOON AFTER AT A KRAKÓW HOSPITAL.
FURTHER EXPERIMENTS
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.
Inscription in Polish and Latin: "In this building Karol Olszewski and Zygmunt Wrรณblewski 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"
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