Tadeusz Urbanski 1901-1985

✍ Scribed by Professor J. Michalski; Professor D.H.R. Barton

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 151 KB
• Volume: 46
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4020
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4020(01)86673-4

✦ Synopsis

Teuleusx Urbxnski was barn m oaober 26th. 1901. Urban&i's family left Warsaw far the Caucasus and scttkd in ELaterinodar (now Kmmodar) whert their son Tadeusz was barn. Urban&i's childhood and youthwcmspcntinEkatmina&randlatczinNovochaka&. SpcakinginPoIlshandFnench~~,~ acquired Russian in schools in which the curriculum included French, Latin, Guman and even English. Urbanski had a talent for languages which was admbed by his many friends ail over the world. In the troubkd times of the Fint World WU and thea the Revolution and the Civil War, young Urbanski earned a living by giving private lessons. After mnaiculatinn, Urbanski emollai in the Novochcrkask Polytechnic in 1919. His aptitude for the sciences made him choose chemistry. One of the leading scientists at Novoch&ask at this time was