Today (October 28, 1845) is the birthday of Zygmunt Florenty Wroblewski, the inventor of the liquefaction of oxygen and nitrogen.
Zygmunt Florenty Wroblewski was born on October 28, 1845, in Grotno, Russia. Wroblewski was educated at the University of Kiev. He took part in the January 1863 uprising against the Russian Empire and lived a secret life for six years. Later, he continued his studies in the cities of Berlin and Heidelberg. He received his doctorate in 1876 from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and became an adjunct professor at the University of Strasbourg. In 1880 he became a member of the Polish Academy.
Introduced in Paris by Professor Guide to explore the method of cooling gases. Krakow was appointed head of the physics department at the University of Zaggillonian. He began to study gases in Krakow and soon joined Carol Olzewski in research. During a study of carbonic acid, Wroblewski discovered CO2 hydrate. He submitted a report on this in 1882.
On March 29, 1883, along with Olzewski, he discovered a method of
liquefying oxygen. Liquefied nitrogen on April 13 of the same year. In 1888,
while studying the physical properties of water, Wroblewski suffered major
burns when a chimney lamp fell on him. Zygmunt Florenty Wroblewski, who
invented the liquefaction of oxygen and nitrogen, died on April 16, 1888, at
the age of 42 in Krakow Hospital, Poland. In 1976, the International
Astronomical Union (IAU) passed a resolution naming one of the Moon's craters Wroblewski
in memory of the chemist.
Source By: Wikipedia
Information: Ramesh, Assistant Professor of Physics, Nehru Memorial College, Puthanampatti, Trichy.
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