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Izaak Maurits Kolthoff
Izaak Maurits Kolthoff
Pages 176-197
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His monumental research productivity (over 900 papers en c! numerous seminal textbooks en c!
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socially, over the next forty years. Izaak Maurits Kolthoff, son of Moses en c!
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later clic! extensive research involving colloids.
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in 1927 he was offerer! a oneyear appointment as professor and chief of the Analytical Division of the School of Chemistry of the University of Minnesota (annual salary $4,500~.
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(future Nobel laureate) on the principles of analytical chemistry,2 even though the scope of the book was narrow with a number of puzzling omissions.
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I Proton transfer reactions in analytical chemistry: the pH concept, titrations, indicators, and buffers.
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. Particularly the latter monograph proved to be highly influential, not only in analytical chemistry but also in other fielcis.
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for the cletermination of OEI based on amperometric titration at the rotated platinum microelectrode with silver nitrate. This method fount!
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, but it was not until the early 1950s that he began a long series of funciamental studies of how solvents influence the properties of solutes. Particularly noteworthy were five classical
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His monographs on conductometric titrations, potentiometric titrations, indicators, classical volumetric analysis, polarography, and emulsion polymerization already have been mentioned. In 1931 he published his first book intended primarily as
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the reasons for the experimental cletails in analytical procedures. Particularly noteworthy was the inclusion of numerous references to the original literature, many to research by Kolthoff himself.
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The significance of Kolthoff's prodigious output of research papers, textbooks en c! reference books can be summarizer!
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He wouic! first dictate letters to his secretary, the highly competent Christa EIguther.
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Perhaps we worrier! too much about some of Kolthoff's apparently unrealistic expectations.
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of this I think everything is wrong." Kolthoff's monumental professional contributions were accomplishes! in spite of a number of physical limitations.
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impress upon his student the necessity to Took on dogma as anathema and not to have unlimited faith in authority." During the late 1930s Kolthoff en c! biochemist Ross Gortner were influential in relocating in the Uniter!
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In summary, Izaak Maurits Kolthoff lee! an unusually long en c!
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The scientific career of Izaak Maurits Kolthoff. Trend s Anal.
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12:644-53. 1918 The importance of electrical conductivity in analytical chemistry.
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The fundamental principles and applications of electrolysis with the dropping mercury electrode and Heyrovsky's polarographic method of chemical analysis.
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Brdicka currents observed with bovine serum albumin and completely reduced bovine serum albumin in the presence of urea.
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