Former personalities of the Czech and Slovak thermal science and analysis and their inventive but often forgotten contribution
摘要
Czech and Slovak thermal analysis, although sporadically cited, had a significant influence on the development of the field. Already in history, for example, in the seventeenth century, Marcus Marci contributed to the analysis of spectral colors or Jan Comenius brought his views on heat introducing the caloric. In modern times, for example, Josef Matějka undertook an avant-garde analysis of kaolin by studying its behavior during thermal decomposition. Rudolf Barta showed himself to be an architect of modern development when, as early as 1955, he advocated for regular conferences on thermal analysis and founded the journal Silikáty publishing related innovations. A renaissance researcher was Vladimír Šatava, who contributed to the instrumental and theoretical development of the field, especially non-isothermal kinetics and hydrothermal analysis. Ivo Proks advanced the development of modulated methods with his periodic method and became a promoter of historical thermodynamics. Viktor Jesenák became an advocate of a new description of periodicity in the solid phase. Pavel Holba introduced the description of the equilibrium background of phase transformations and took care of the new portrayal of non-stoichiometry. Vladimír Balek became the father of an original method of emanation thermal analysis as a structural probe. A number of other authors were behind the publication of important books and papers showing the integrated involvement of domestic science.