St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences

MendeMeff had made many enemies by his espousal of liberal movements. In 1880, the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences refused, in spite of very strong recommendations, to elect him member of its chemical section. His liberal tendencies were an abomination. But other and greater honors came to this sage. The University of Moscow promptly made him one of its honorary members. The Royal Society of England presented him with the Davy Medal which he shared with Lothar Meyer for the Periodic Classification of the Elements. 

N. N. Beketov, JRCS1 (1869) 235. Beketov studied chemistry under N. N. Zinin in Kazan University. He taught in Kharkov University from 1855 to 1887 (extraordinary professor in 1860 and full professor in 1865). After election to membership in the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1886, he moved to St. Petersburg. He was one of the pioneers in physical chemistry in Russia. Under his initiative, thermochemistry laboratories were created in Kharkov and in St. Petersburg. See Volkov and Kulikova (note 13), 22-23. 

F. M. Flavitskii, Ohshchaia ili neoganicheskaia khimiia [General Chemistry or Inorganic Chemistry] (Kazan tipo-lit. Universiteta, 1893-94) 2nd ed. (Kazan tipo-lit. Universiteta, 1898) 3rd ed. (Kazan tipo-lit. Universiteta, 1907). Flavitskii was professor of chemistry in Kazan University (1884) and a corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1907) (Volkov and Kulikova (note 13), 230-231). 

Research-and-production complex Institute for Single Crystals of National academy of sciences of Ukraine Lenin Ave.60, Kharkov, Ukraine, 61001 eksperiand isc.kharkov.com -Research-and-production complex Spectron , St-Petersburg... 

Institute of Macromolecular Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia. E-mail tennikova mail.rcom.ru... 

Professor Kirill Yakovlevich KONDRATYEV, Academician, Counsellor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, First Chairman of the Board of the North-Western International Cleaner Production and Environmental Management Centre, St. Petersburg. 

On leave from Department of Chemistry, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetsky Pr. 2, 198904 Stary Petergof, Russian Federation. V. Yu. K. is grateful to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences of Russia for financial support of his stay at Lund University. 

My stay in St. Petersburg in order to visit the Library of the Mihtary Medicine Academy, would have been entirely impossible without the valuable help of Daniel Alexandrov, his wife Lera and son Daniel jr. and Alexandra Bekasova of the St. Petersburg Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 

Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences Politechnicheskaya 26, 194021 St-Petersburg, Russia oleg.gusev mail. ioffe. ru... 

Strupp, Christoph. War in Academe American Perceptions of German Science and Research During World War I. Paper presented at conference organized by the Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Science, in St. Petersburg, Russia, April 8-10, 2003. 

In 1808 a scientific expedition from the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg declared that petroleum is a mineral of no usefulness. Today, about 2 trillion barrels are utilized annually for a number of... 

Russian Academy of Sciences, Nab. Makarova 2, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia e-mail MIvanov MI1596.spb.edu... 

On leave from the St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Gatchina, 188350 Russia... 

In 1911, in protest against political repressions, Vernadsky resigned together with other lecturers and professors of Moscow University from his position. After his resignation Vernadsky moved to St,-Petersburg where he headed the newly established mineralogical laboratory of the Academy of Sciences (Krout, 1983). One year later Vernadsky was elected as a an ordinary member of the Academy of Science. 

Bernoulli, D. (1738), Exposition of a New Theory of the Measurement of Risk, Imperial Academy of Science, St. Petersburg. 

The word thermochemistry initially written as thermo-chemistry is due to Germain Hess and is found for the first time in the title of a report (Recherches thermo-chimiques), written in French, that was presented at the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg in 1840 [8] and was subsequently published in their bulletin [9]. In that report, he also established the so-called Hess s Law [9] that enables thermochemical values that are difficult to obtain directly, to be calculated. In 1890, Ostwald [10] considered Hess to be the founder of thermochemistry, although experiments on thermochemistry had been initiated long before then. 

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