Nicodem Caro ( German: Nikodem Caro ; May 23, 1871 , Lodz - June 27, 1935 , Rome ) is a German chemist and entrepreneur. Doctor of Chemistry. Foreign Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1925) [1] .
| Nicodem Caro | |
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| Nikodem Caro | |
 Nicodem Caro | |
| Date of Birth | May 23, 1871 |
| Place of Birth | Lodz , Petrokov Province , Kingdom of Poland , Russian empire |
| Date of death | June 27, 1935 ( 64) |
| Place of death | Rome |
| A country | Germany |
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| Awards and prizes | [d] ( 1929 ) |
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Biography
Born into a famous Jewish family living in Poland and Upper Silesia . After leaving school in 1888, he entered the chemistry department of Berlin Technical University . Since 1891 - chemist at the Technical College in Berlin-Charlottenburg .
The following year he received his doctorate at Rostock University , worked as an assistant professor there.
The process he developed with Adolf Frank for the production of cyanide compounds from carbides was patented on March 31, 1895 . For the purpose of economic exploitation and further research of cyanamide , Karo, together with Adolf Frank, founded the company Cyanidgesellschaft mbH.
The developments and products of the Karo-Frank enterprise contributed to the production of war gases used by German troops during the First World War. After the war, became the first president of the Bavarian chemical company Bayerische Stickstoffwerke AG.
After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Caro left Germany and emigrated through Switzerland to Italy , where he died in Rome in 1935. Buried in Zurich .
Scientific activity
The main research in the field of producing calcium carbide and acetylene , the production of which was of great importance for the German chemical industry.
He proposed a method for testing calcium carbide (Karo method), which in the 1890s became the official German standard technological process. In 1895, in collaboration with Professor Adolf Frank , he developed a method for fixing nitrogen by its reaction with calcium carbide to produce calcium cyanamide and proposed furnaces for the production of cyanamide (Frank - Caro furnaces), as well as experiments on gas hydration and gasification of peat .
The author of a large number of patents, as well as the “Handbook of Acetylene” (1904) and other printed works.
Known for his work on the catalytic oxidation of ammonia , gasification of peat. Developed a cyanamide nitrogen fixation method .
Notes
- ↑ Profile of Nicodem Caro on the official website of the RAS