Lev Pisarzhevsky

Lev Vladimirovich Pisarzhevsky (also transliterated as Pisarzhevskii: Russian: Лев Влади́мирович Писарже́вский; 13 February 1874 – 23 March 1938) was a Ukrainian Soviet chemist who studied peroxides, peracids, and solutions.

Lev Vladimirovich Pisarzhevsky was born on 13 February 1874 Kishinev in the Bessarabia Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Chişinău, Republic of Moldova).

He spent the period from 1900 to 1903 abroad, where he worked in Germany with Wilhelm Ostwald in 1900-1902 and also became acquainted with such leading Western European contributors to physical chemistry as Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Svante Arrhenius, and Walther Nernst.

[1] Pisarzhevsky lectured in St. Petersburg between 1911 and 1913 and was awarded a doctoral degree for a dissertation entitled Thee Free Energy of Chemical Reaction and the Solvent in 1913.

He subsequently taught in Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipro; in 1926-2016 Dnipropetrovsk) and was a founder of the Ukrainian Institute of Physical Chemistry (now the L. V. Pisarzhevsky Institute of Physical Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) in 1927.