Читать книгу Clathrate Hydrates - Группа авторов - Страница 28

With a successful description of hydrate structures and development of a statistical thermodynamic model, a new era in clathrate hydrate research began. In summary, up until 1960, except for a few isolated contributions (especially the diffraction studies in the 1950s), hydrate scientific research was dominated by European researchers stumbling across hydrates while doing other work, and, later, by doing concentrated curiosity‐driven scientific research on hydrates.

Starting in the 1950s and 1960s, physical chemistry‐based laboratory work of note in the area of gas hydrate research was carried out in the Applied Thermodynamics Laboratory in Delft (G.A.M. Diepen), the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Soviet (now Russian) Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Novosibirsk (Yuri A. Dyadin, Figure 2.10), and the University of Pittsburgh (George A. Jeffrey). At the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa, Donald Davidson (Figure 2.10) started a fundamental gas hydrate research program featuring multi‐technique approaches to study hydrate properties and dynamics. Contributions of these scientists are discussed in detail in the chapters that follow.