Anatoli Fedorovich Kapustinskii

Who is Anatoli Fedorovich Kapustinskii?

Anatoli Fedorovich Kapustinskii was a Polish and Soviet chemist. He derived the Kapustinskii equation that allows an estimation of the lattice energy of an ionic crystal.

Kapustinskii was born in the Polish city Zhytomyr. In 1914 he entered the Warsaw Primary Gymnasium, in 1922 he finished a Secondary School in Moscow. In 1923 he began his studies of chemistry at Moscow State University. He graduated there in 1929. From 1929 to 1941 work in the Institute of Applied Mineralogy in Moscow. During this time he worked in Western Europe and in the USA, there for 1/2 year together with Gilbert N. Lewis at the University of California.