Marcel Pourbaix, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Marcel Pourbaix

Belgian chemist

Date of Birth: 19-Sep-1904

Place of Birth: Aleksin, Tula Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 28-Sep-1998

Profession: engineer, chemist

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Marcel Pourbaix (16 September 1904 – 28 September 1998) was a Belgian chemist and pianist.
He performed his most well known research at the University of Brussels, studying corrosion.
His biggest achievement is the derivation of potential-pH, better known as “Pourbaix Diagrams”.
Pourbaix Diagrams are thermodynamic charts constructed using the Nernst equation and visualize the relationship between possible phases of a system, bounded by lines representing the reactions that transport between them.
They can be read much like a phase diagram. In 1963, Pourbaix produced "Atlas of Electrochemical Equilibria", which contains potential-pH diagrams for all elements known at the time.
Pourbaix and his collaborators began preparing the work in the early 1950s.