GC1W577 Paul Kogermani nimeline TTÜ aare (Traditional Cache) in Estonia created by triick

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Paul Kogerman (5 December 1891 in Tallinn – 27 July 1951 Tallinn) was the first rector of Tallinn Technical University. He was an Estonian chemist and founder of modern research in oil shale.

Paul Kogerman was born into a sailor's family. In 1913, he was graduated from the Alexander Gymnasium in Tallinn. Starting in 1913, he studied at the University of Tartu, graduating from its Department of Chemistry in 1918. In 1919–1920 he got a state scholarship to study at the Imperial College London.

From 1921 to 1936, Kogerman was active at the University of Tartu. After the defence of his Master's thesis on the thermal decay of oil-shale, he was elected docent of Organic Chemistry of the University in 1922. He went on to become extraordinary professor in 1924 and full professor in 1925. In 1926 and 1933 he was guest lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich and in 1927–1928 at Harvard University. In 1934, he defended, in Zürich, his doctoral thesis on the combining and polymerization reactions of the isolated double bond dienes.

From 1936 to 1941, Kogerman was professor of organic chemistry at the Tallinn Technical University, in 1936–1939 he was also a rector of the University. In 1938, Kogerman was selected to the newly established Estonian Academy of Sciences and in 1946 reselected after reestablishment of the Academy as the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1938–1939 Kogerman was ex officio member of the National Council. From October 1939 until the Soviet occupation of Estonia on 21 June 1940 Kogerman served as Minister of Public Education.

In 1941, Kogerman, together with his family, was deported by Soviet authorities to the prisoner camp in Sverdlovsk Oblast. He was released and allowed to return to Estonia in 1945. From 1945 to 1951 he was director of the chair for organic chemistry in the Tallinn Polytechnical Institute (Tallinn Technical University). From 1947 to 1950 he served also as the director of the Chemistry Institute of the Academy of Sciences.

Paul Kogerman won international reputation with his work on oil shale. He initiated systematic research of oil shale and its products by establishing, together with professor Michael Wittlich, a laboratory to study oil-bearing shales in 1925. Kogerman submitted fundamental work on the structure and origin of oil shale and its chemical characteristics, as well as work on thermal processes.

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