M. S. Vigdergauz: Scientist, Organizer of Science, Founder of the Samara Chromatographic School. To the 90th Anniversary of the Scientist

This year marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of an outstanding world-famous scientist, an organizer of science who created the most powerful chromatographic school in our country, as well as a popularizer of chromatography, a science to which Mark Solomonovich Vigdergauz devoted his entire life. Scientific interests of M. S. Vigdergauz covers all areas of chromatography: from the theory and practice of gas chromatography to the development of chromatographic processes using non-ideal eluents, stationary phases and transclassification variants of chromatography based on the use of phase transitions in the stationary and mobile phases. Mark Solomonovich actively introduced gasliquid (GLC) and capillary chromatography into analytical control, developed the use of gas chromatography in non-analytical control and in industrial processes. Under his leadership, one of the first computer data banks of chromatographic retention values of more than twenty thousand organic substances was created, and a minimum set of preferred stationary phases was proposed, taking into account conditional chromatographic polarity. M. S. Vigdergauz proposed the double internal standard method and other methods for calculating chromatograms. The scientist’s research made a significant contribution to the development of gas chromatographic methods for the analysis of oil and petroleum products.