László Szebellédy Explained

László Szebellédy (20 April 1901 – 23 January 1944) was a Hungarian chemist who contributed to electrochemistry with the development of Coulometric analytical techniques for detecting small quantities of chemicals with precision. He served as a professor at the Pázmány Péter University.

Szebellédy was born in Rétság and went to the Pázmány Péter University where he studied pharmacy, and obtained a doctorate in 1926. He then joined as an assistant to Professor Lajos Winkler (1863–1939). In 1933 he became an assistant professor. He went to Zurich, Dresden and Leipzig, working at the laboratories of W. D. Treadwell, Max Le Blanc (1865-1943) and Wilhelm Böttger (1871–1949). In 1935-36 he taught chemical analysis and worked on microanalysis techniques involving dyes, fluorescence, indicators and catalysts. He developed coulombetric (or coulometric^[1]) titration analysis along with Zoltan Somogyi (1915–1945) in 1938^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]} where the volume of a chemical could be calculated using Faraday's laws.^[8] He died at the age of 43, publishing more than a hundred papers.^{[9] [10]}

Notes and References

1. Yoshimori . Takayoshi . 1982 . Precise coulometric titration - an approach to the highest accuracy . Reviews in Analytical Chemistry . 6 . 1 . 10.1515/REVAC.1982.6.1.13 . 95340026 . 2191-0189. free .
2. Szebellédy . L. . Somogyi . Z. . 1938 . Die coulorretrisehe Analyse als Präzisionsmethode. III . Fresenius' Zeitschrift für analytische Chemie . de . 112 . 9–10 . 332–336 . 10.1007/BF01383887 . 97047481 . 0016-1152.
3. Szebellédy . L. . Somogyi . Z. . 1938 . Die coulometrisehe Analyse als Präzisionsmethode. V . Fresenius' Zeitschrift für analytische Chemie . de . 112 . 11–12 . 391–395 . 10.1007/BF01382764 . 95477119 . 0016-1152.
4. Szebellédy . L. . Somogyi . Z. . 1938 . Die coulometrische Analyse als Präzisionsmethode. II . Fresenius' Zeitschrift für analytische Chemie . de . 112 . 9–10 . 323–331 . 10.1007/BF01383886 . 95834196 . 0016-1152.
5. Szebellédy . L. . Somogyi . Z. . 1938 . Die eoulometrisehe Analyse als Präzisionsmethode. VI . Fresenius' Zeitschrift für analytische Chemie . de . 112 . 11–12 . 395–399 . 10.1007/BF01382765 . 97249135 . 0016-1152.
6. Szebellédy . L. . Somogyi . Z. . 1938 . Die coulometrische Analyse als Präzisionsmethode. IV . Fresenius' Zeitschrift für analytische Chemie . de . 112 . 11–12 . 385–390 . 10.1007/BF01382763 . 197597126 . 0016-1152.
7. Szebellédy . L. . Somogyi . Z. . 1938 . Die coulometrische Analyse als Präzisionsmethode. I . Fresenius' Zeitschrift für analytische Chemie . de . 112 . 9–10 . 313–323 . 10.1007/BF01383885 . 197592752 . 0016-1152.
8. Lubert . Karl-Heinz . Kalcher . Kurt . 2010 . History of Electroanalytical Methods . Electroanalysis . en . 22 . 17–18 . 1937–1946 . 10.1002/elan.201000087.
9. Book: Inzelt, George . Electrochemistry in a Divided World . 2015 . Springer International Publishing . 978-3-319-21220-3 . Scholz . Fritz . Cham . 359–399 . en . Hungarian Comets in the Sky of Electrochemistry . 10.1007/978-3-319-21221-0_12.
10. Małyszko . J. . 2011 . Jubileusz metody miareczkowania kulometrycznego . Wiadomości Chemiczne . English . [Z] 65, 5-6 . 345–361 . 0043-5104.