Vsevolod Klechkovsky
Chemist, Person
1900 –
Who is Vsevolod Klechkovsky?
Vsevolod Mavrikievich Klechkovsky, also transliterated as Klechkovskii and Klechkowski was a Soviet-era agricultural chemist known for his work with radioisotopes.
He graduated in 1929 from the Moscow agricultural academy and worked there from 1930. He became a professor in 1955, and an academician of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the Soviet Union in 1956.
His use of isotopic labeling in the advance of soil chemistry led to his being considered a founder of agricultural radiology. He was one of the first to study plant nutrition using radioisotopes, for which he received a Stalin prize in 1952 along with his academy co-workers. He studied the behavior of heavy nuclei daughter isotopes in soils.
Following the 1957 Kyshtym disaster, Klechkovsky led the research projects studying the long-term effects of radioactive contamination at the site.
Klechkovsky also studied theoretical chemistry, and proposed a theoretical justification of the empirical Madelung rule for the ordering of atomic orbital energies. This rule is therefore sometimes called Klechkovsky's rule, especially in Russian and in French sources.
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