Vera Evstafievna Popova (nee Bogdanovskaya [1] ) ( 1867 - 1896 ) - Doctor of Chemistry, daughter of the famous Russian surgeon , professor of the Medical and Surgical Academy E.I. Bogdanovsky . One of the first Russian women chemists.
| Vera Evstafievna Popova | |
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| Date of Birth | September 17, 1867 |
| Place of Birth | St. Petersburg |
| Date of death | April 25, 1896 (28 years old) |
| Place of death | Izhevsk |
| A country |  Russian empire |
| Scientific field | chemistry |
| Place of work | |
| Alma mater | Bestuzhev Courses , University of Geneva |
| Academic degree | doctor of chemistry |
| supervisor | A.P. Borodin |
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Biography
Daughter of Eustache Ivanovich and Maria Alekseevna Bogdanovsky. She was educated at the Smolny Institute in St. Petersburg (graduating in 1883 ), and then, in 1883-1887, at the Higher Women's Courses in Natural Separation. She studied chemistry at the University of Geneva , where in 1892 she received a doctorate in chemistry ( dissertation "Studies of Dibenzylketone", 1892). Since 1890, he was a chemistry teacher at the New Alexandria Institute of Agriculture and Forestry ; since 1892, she lectured on stereochemistry at the Higher Women's Courses in St. Petersburg [2] .
In the autumn of 1895 she married J.K. Popov . Her husband, a nobleman by birth, worked at the St. Petersburg cartridge factory for a long time after graduating from the military academy, and a year before the wedding he was appointed head of the Izhevsk arms and steel mills . That same autumn, she left St. Petersburg with her husband and settled at the Izhevsk factories, in the Vyatka province . Organized a home chemical laboratory there, and in addition - worked in the factory.
In 1896, while working in the laboratory, the researcher tried to carry out a reaction between white phosphorus and cyanic acid . An ampoule with these two substances exploded, and four hours later she died from injuries and poisoning caused by the formation of phosphorous hydrogen . She was buried in the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral , and then the husband took the body of his wife to his family estate in Chernigov province (Sosnitsky district, Shabalinov village). The crypt in which V.E. Bogdanovskaya-Popova was buried (the body was destroyed in the first years of Soviet power) is now in disrepair, and the monument adorning it is in the Sosnitsky Museum of Local Lore.
Scientific activity
She was engaged in the chemistry of ketone compounds . In a doctoral dissertation, she showed that dibenzyl ketone, when heated in an alkaline environment and in a stream of air, combines oxygen and forms a certain amount of benzoic acid, and thus has established that there are ketones that, like aldehydes , are able to convert into acids without decomposition of the molecule .
Bibliography
- Reactions of compaction and reduction of dibenzyl ketone, "Journal of the Russian Physical-Chemical Society", 1892, v. 24, issue No. 5
- On the oxidation of ketones to hydroxy acids [Communication], ZhRFKhO, 1894, Volume 26, no. four.
Notes
- β Bogdanovskaya, Vera Evstafyevna // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- β Popova, Vera Evstafyevna // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
Literature
- Gustavson G. A few words about Vera Evstafievna Bogdanovskaya-Popova // "Journal of the Russian Physico-Chemical Society", 1897, v. 29, no. 3
- Musabekov Yu. S. The first Russian women chemists // "Messages on the scientific work of members of the All-Union Chemical Society named after D. I. Mendeleev ", 1949, issue. four.
- Popova, Vera Evstafyevna // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
Links
- Archival service of Udmurtia (inaccessible link)
- Grave of Bogdanovskaya-Popova (inaccessible link)