Ivan Alekseyevich Kablukov

Ivan Alekseyevich Kablukov (Russian: Ива́н Алексе́евич Каблуко́в, (2 September) 1857 – 5 May 1942 ) was a Russian and Soviet physical chemist. He simultaneously and independently of Vladimir Kistiakovsky proposed the idea of ion solvation and initiated the unification of the physical and chemical theory of solutions. He published influential textbooks on organic chemistry and was a professor at Moscow State University and Timiryazev Agricultural Academy.

Biography Kablukov was born on (2 September) 1857 in the village of Prussy, Moscow (now Mytishchinsky District, Moscow Oblast), in the family of a dentist. Both his father, Aleksey Kablukov, and his mother, Ekaterina Storozhevaya, came from peasant families. He also began teaching at Timiryazev Agricultural Academy and Real School of K.P. Voskresensky.

From May 1903 he was an extraordinary professor at the Moscow University, where he worked until the end of his life: from 1906 as an ordinary and from January 1910 as an emeritus professor; in 1915-1933 Kablukov was the head of the thermochemical laboratory of the chemistry department of the faculty of physics and mathematics; in 1918 - mid-1920s - head of the laboratory of inorganic and physical chemistry. From 1922 he was also director of the Research Institute of Chemistry at Moscow State University. thumb Kablukov (seated in centre with paper on lap) in 1907 at the 1st Mendeleev Congress at the Electrotechnical InstituteIvan Kablukov was not only engaged in theoretical research, but also studied the natural resources of Russia (later the USSR). He participated in the foundation of the Russian production of mineral fertilizers. In 1905 he was appointed a representative of the Main Department of Land Management and Agriculture to the Interdepartmental Commission on the Production of Nitric Oxide at the Main Artillery Department. In 1908 he was a member of the Moscow Agricultural Institute commission for the Study of phosphorites in Russia, whose work laid the foundations for the production of fertilizers from Russian raw materials. In 1909, at the suggestion of the Ministry of Agriculture, a commission was set up at the Moscow Agricultural Institute on the extraction of nitrogenous fertilizers from the air, the production of lime nitrate and calcium cyanide. The commission was made up of Kablukov, Nikolay Demyanov and Dmitry Pryanishnikov. Two years later, in 1911, Ivan Kablukov became the chairman of the commission on the extraction of lime.

From 1933 to the early 1940s he was also head of the Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry at the Stalin Industrial Academy.

After the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, part of the department's staff was evacuated to Chakino (Tambov region) and Samarkand in September 1941. Kablukov died during the evacuation in Tashkent on 5 May 1942.

The professor was familiar with Marshak's humorous composition, and one day he remonstrated with Marshak's brother, the writer Ilyin, wagging his finger: "Your brother was certainly aiming at me!".