Jan Zaleski

Jan Zaleski (March 8, 1869 in Kalwaria Augustowska – August 22, 1932 in Warsaw) was a Polish biochemist. Zaleski was a professor of the Agricultural University of Dublany (1904–1907), professor of the Warsaw University (since 1922) and a member of the Polish Academy of Learning (since 1921).

Between 1895 and 1901 he co-operated with Marceli Nencki in research about the content of ammonia in blood and conversions of blood pigment. In 1907 Zaleski published an empirical formula of mesoporphyrin. He is a co-author (with K. Lindenfeld) of a method to obtain a haemin.

References

• "Zaleski Jan". Nowa encyklopedia powszechna PWN. 6 (1 ed.). Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN. 1997. p. 970. ISBN 83-01-11969-1. 
• "Zaleski Jan". Internetowa encyklopedia PWN (in Polish). Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN. Retrieved 2007-09-22. 

External links

• "Esterification of Hæmin". Journal of the Chemical Society, Abstracts (PDF). Royal Society of Chemistry. 1925. pp. 88–89. doi:10.1039/CA9252800001.