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Ivan Stranski
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Ivan Nikolov Stranski (Иван Николов Странски; Iwan Nikolow Stranski; 2 January 1897 – 19 June 1979) was a Bulgarian physical chemist who is considered the father of crystal growth research.
He was the founder of the Bulgarian school of physical chemistry, heading the departments of physical chemistry at Sofia University and later at the Technical University of Berlin, of which he was also rector. The Stranski–Krastanov growth and Kossel–Stranski model are some of Stranski's contributions which bear his name.
Ivan Stranski was born in Sofia, the capital of the Principality of Bulgaria, as the third child of Nikola Stranski, pharmacist to the royal court, and his wife Maria Krohn, a Baltic German. Ever since his childhood he suffered from bone tuberculosis, an incurable disease at the time. Stranski finished the First Sofia High School for Boys. Seeking ways to fight the illness, Stranski decided to study medicine, though he returned to Bulgaria disappointed after a year of studies in Vienna. He graduated from Sofia University in 1922, majoring in chemistry, and went to the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin for further studies. There, in 1925, he acquired his Dr. phil. under Paul Günther with a dissertation on X-ray spectroscopy.
Following his doctoral studies, Stranski joined Sofia University's newly established Department of Physical Chemistry of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics in 1925 as a reader, becoming the first reader of physical chemistry in the country. By 1929, he was promoted to associate professor and by 1937 he was a regular professor at Sofia University. Stranski attracted prominent scientists such as Rostislaw Kaischew and Lyubomir Krastanov to the department.
In 1930, Ivan Stranski received a Rockefeller scholarship and along with Kaischew was invited to the Technical University of Berlin, where he collaborated with prominent physical chemist Max Volmer. The 1930s saw the publishing of several important articles which Stranski co-authored with Kaischew and Krastanov, such as the 1939 discovery of Stranski–Krastanov growth.
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