ROSTISLAW KAISCHEW – Physicists

Created 6.6.2013
Updated 23.6.2020

Biography
ROSTISLAW ATANASOW KAISCHEW
(16.02.1908 – 18.11.2002)

Born

He was born in Russia (St. Petersburg).

Education:

He studied chemistry in Sofia University and specialized in Wroclaw (1930 - 1932), Berlin, Kharkiv (1935), Munich (1937 - 1938) [1]

He worked on his PhD thesis in the High Technical School in Wroclaw (1932) [1]

Research:

Rostislaw Kaischew is one of the founders of the modern physical chemistry in Bulgaria and a creator of the worldwide recognized Bulgarian crystal growth school.

His investigations with Prof. I. N. Stranski are in the field of modern theory of crystal growth

Teaching activities

As a head of the Department of Physical Chemistry Rostislaw Kaischew was a teacher manyучител на няколко поколения български физикохимици.

Professional Experience

He was assistant (1932 – 1944), Professor (1947), Corresponding Member (1947) and Member (1961), Deputy President of BAS (1962 – 1968), and head of the Chemical Section (1961 – 1962) of BAS [1]

He was one of the founders of the Chair of Physical Chemistry at the University of Sofia

He built the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Publications

R. Kaischew, Zur Theorie des Kristallwachstums, Z. physik, 102, 684 (1936)

References:

Академик Ростислав Каишев: Живот, посветен на науката, Академично издателство "Марин Дринов", 2003

Л. Спасов, Г. Камишева (съст.), Милко Борисов за себе си и другите за него, Акад. изд. "Проф. М. Дринов", София, 2008, с. 198

А. Милчев, С. Стоянов, Академик Ростислав Каишев живот посветен на науката, Bulgarian Journal of Science Education, v. 21, Nr. 1, 2012, с. 150-151

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