Chemist, Practitioner, Teacher… Ivan Alekseevich Kablukov (1857–1942)

Abstract

2022 marks the 165th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Russian scientist Ivan Alekseevich Kablukov. The main field of scientific interests and discoveries of Academician Kablukov relates to electrochemistry of non-aqueous solutions. I. A. Kablukov is also known as a teacher and populariser of science, the founder of the school of physical chemists in Russia, as the author of a number of works on the history of chemistry.In 1896, at the Moscow Imperial Engineering School of the Department of Railways (now Russian University of Transport), Kablukov founded the Department of Chemistry, which he led for a long time. In total, Kablukov’s scientific heritage includes more than three hundred works.Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1928), Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1932), Honorary Member of the Society of Lovers of Natural Science, Anthropology and Ethnography (since 1921), Member of Russian Physico-Chemical Society, Society for Acclimatisation of Animals and Plants (since 1898), All-Union Chemical Society n.a. D. I. Mendeleev (in 1934 he was elected vice-president of Moscow branch of AUCS) and many other scientific societies. Honoured Professor of Moscow University (since 1910).A. Kablukov owns fundamental work on the theory of solutions, thermochemistry, and processing of mineral raw materials into fertilisers. He was an outstanding teacher.