Józef Boguski

Józef Jerzy Boguski (Template:IPA; 1853–1933) was a Polish chemist and a professor at the Warsaw Polytechnic.

Life

Józef Jerzy Boguski

Boguski served as an assistant in St. Petersburg to the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev.<ref>Robert Reid, Marie Curie, p. 24.</ref>

From 1895 Boguski was a professor at Warsaw's Wawelberg and Rotwand School, and from 1920 at the Warsaw Polytechnic. He carried out pioneering studies in chemical kinetics and formulated "Boguski's rule" concerning the speed of dissolution of solids in liquids.

It was at a laboratory run by Boguski in the Museum of Industry and Agriculture at Krakowskie Przedmieście 66 in Warsaw that his cousin Maria Skłodowska (Marie Curie), future investigator of radioactivity and future double Nobel laureate, in 1890–91 began her practical scientific training.<ref>Robert Reid, Marie Curie, pp. 23-24.</ref>

During World War I, Boguski studied explosives and poisons with military applications. He was also a popularizer of science.

Honors

In 1926 Kraków University and the Warsaw Polytechnic bestowed an honorary doctorate on Boguski. In the same year, he also became an Honorary Member of the Polish Chemical Society.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

See also

• List of Poles

References

• "Boguski, Józef Jerzy," Encyklopedia powszechna PWN (PWN Universal Encyclopedia), vol. 1, Warsaw, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1973, p. 305.
• Robert Reid, Marie Curie, New York, New American Library, 1974.

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