Armin Stromberg () was a Russian
electrochemist
Electrochemistry is the branch of physical chemistry concerned with the relationship between electrical potential difference and identifiable chemical change. These reactions involve electrons moving via an electronically conducting phase (typica ...
, who is most famous of his works in classic
polarography
Polarography is a type of voltammetry where the working electrode is a dropping mercury electrode (DME) or a static mercury drop electrode (SMDE), which are useful for their wide cathodic ranges and renewable surfaces. It was invented in 1922 by C ...
and
stripping voltammetry.
Stromberg published around 470 papers, around half of them in
academic journal
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s, mainly in Russian; and a popular textbook for students called 'Physical Chemistry', also in Russian.
His scientific career started back in 1930 in
Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg (, ; ), alternatively Romanization of Russian, romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( ; 1924–1991), is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. The ci ...
Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences in the laboratory of molten salts. In 1956 he moved to
Tomsk Polytechnic University
National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) is a technical university in Russia. TPU was a member of 12 international associations, including the Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research (CESAER) ...
, where he created a large scientific research laboratory developing different aspects of the stripping voltammetry method. During 1963–2003 he supervised 103 PhD students, who successfully defended their thesis on analytical chemistry.
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Russian physical chemists
1910 births
2004 deaths
Ural State University alumni
Academic staff of Ural State University
German emigrants to the Soviet Union
Soviet physical chemists
Russian people of German descent
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