Engineer Chemist Miķelis Bružs and Physical Chemist Professor Boriss Bružs

Humanitārās un sociālās zinātnes 2016
Ilgvars Grosvalds

In the family of Bružs, there were chemists for two generations. Miķelis Bružs is well known not only as a chemical engineer but also as a state and social worker. He has worked as the director of the factory “Santonin” in Chimkent, Turkestan, and as the managing director of the stock-company “Ķieģelis” in Volgunde, Latvia. His son, Boriss Bružs, a professor of the Latvia University (1940) and a physical chemist, enlarged the scope of his knowledge at Princeton University in the USA (1926) and worked as a guest scientist at the Laboratory of G. V. Lewis in Berkly, California (1930–1931), and at Cambridge University in Great Britain (1934–1935). He established the mechanism of the dissociation of the carbonates of magnesium, cadmium and silver, interpreted the electrolytic effect of Peltier, and determined the common solution of the thermoelement and the element of diffusion.

Keywords
Boriss Bružs, Physical fizikālķīmiķis, ķīmijas inženieris, Latvijas Universitāte, Miķelis Bružs.

Grosvalds, I. Engineer Chemist Miķelis Bružs and Physical Chemist Professor Boriss Bružs. Humanitārās un sociālās zinātnes, 2016, Vol.26, pp.36-41. ISSN 1407-9291. e-ISSN 2255-8543.

Publication language
Latvian (lv)