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

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).

1. A. Kablukov owns fundamental work on the theory of solutions, thermochemistry, and processing of mineral raw materials into fertilisers. He was an outstanding teacher.

1. Bogatova, T V Kablukov Ivan Alekseevich New Russian Encyclopedia, Vol VII (1) Ch ed A D Nekipelov, Moscow, Encyclopedia publ , 2010, p 429

2. Zefirova, O N Ivan Alekseevich Kablukov Materials for the bibliography of scientists of the USSR Chemical Sciences Series, 1957, Iss 24, 59 p

3. Kablukov Ivan Alekseevich Railway transport: encyclopedia, Ch ed N S Kanarev, Moscow, Scientific publishing house «Big Russian Encyclopedia», 1994, p 547

4. Shits, L A Solvation [Solvatatsiya] Great Soviet Encyclopedia, Vol 24 Ch ed A M Prokhorov, Moscow, Soviet Encyclopedia, 1976, p 164

5. Mishustin, A I Electrolytic dissociation [Elektroliticheskaya dissotsiatsiya] Great Soviet Encyclopedia, Vol 30 Ch ed A M Prokhorov, Moscow, Soviet Encyclopedia, 1978, pp 62−63

6. Handbook of chemistry for applicants to universities Under the general ed A G Pilipenko, Kiev, Naukova Dumka publ , 1972, 408 p

7. Minin, G A , Apattsev, V I Moscow Institute of Railway Engineers (MIIT) Railway transport: encyclopedia, Ch ed N S Kanarev, Moscow, Scientific publishing house «Great Russian Encyclopedia», 1994, pp 340−341

8. Kablukov Ivan Alekseevich Great Soviet Encyclopedia, Vol 11 Ch ed A M Prokhorov, Moscow, Soviet Encyclopedia, 1973, p 102

9. Kablukov, I A Basic Principles of Inorganic Chemistry [Osnovnie nachala neorganicheskoi khimii] Moscow, Engineering School of the Department of Railways, 1900, 310 p

10. Kablukov, I A Physical and colloidal chemistry [Fizicheskaya i kolloidnaya khimiya] Moscow, Selkhozgiz publ , 1935, 558 p

11. Kablukov, I A Course of lectures on inorganic chemistry [Kurs lektsii po neorganicheskoi khimii] Moscow, Selkhozgiz publ , 1940, 320 p

12. Kablukov I A Mendeleev Encyclopedic Dictionary, Ed 7th, Vol 28, Brothers Granat, Stb 426

13. Kablukov Ivan Alekseevich Great Soviet Encyclopedia, Vol 19 Ch ed B A Vvedensky, Moscow, State scientific publishing house «Great Soviet Encyclopedia», 1953, pp 234−235

14. Kablukov Ivan Alekseevich Soviet Encyclopedic Dictionary, Ch ed A M Prokhorov, Moscow, Soviet Encyclopedia, 1985, p 1600

15. Solovyov, Yu I , Kablukova, M I , Kolesnikov, E V Ivan Alekseevich Kablukov: One hundred years since the birth 1857−1957 Moscow, Publishing house of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1957, 211 p

16. Kablukov Ivan Alekseevich MIIT at the turn of the century Moscow, 2002, p 372

17. Rice, R E Hydrating ions in St Petersburg and Moscow; ignoring them in Leipzig and Baltimore Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, 2002, Vol 27, No 1, pp 17-25 [Electronic resource]: http://acshist.scs.illinois.edu/bulletin_open_access/FullIssues/Vol27-1 pdf Last accessed 18 02 2022