Lucia V. Streng
{{short description|Russian-American chemist}}
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Lucia V. Streng (November 6, 1909 – April 28, 1995) was a Russian-born American chemist. She spent much of her career studying the noble gases and their properties, successfully synthesizing krypton difluoride. She and her husband, Alex G. Streng, both held positions at Temple University.{{cite web|last1=Lowe|first1=Derek|author-link=Derek Lowe (chemist)|title=Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride|url=https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-dioxygen-difluoride|website=In The Pipeline|publisher=Science Translational Medicine|access-date=24 August 2016}}
Personal life and education
Streng was among the first women to receive a degree in mining engineering from Donetsk Mining Institute. She was born in the Russian Empire. During World War II she fled the Soviet Union with her husband and son. The family settled in West Germany for several years, then emigrated to the United States in 1950. Lucia Streng earned money painting china lamps until she and her husband found positions at Temple University.Jaffe, Mark, "Lucia V. Streng, 85; Innovative Chemist At Temple University," Philly.com, April 30, 1995, http://articles.philly.com/1995-04-30/news/25687426_1_krypton-painting-china-chemist (accessed 24 August 2016) [https://archive.today/20160316100623/http://articles.philly.com/1995-04-30/news/25687426_1_krypton-painting-china-chemist]
Career
Lucia Streng became a research associate at the Temple University Research Institute several years after her husband, Alex G. Streng, was hired as a research chemist. She performed analytical work for the federal Bureau of Mines as well as private companies. In 1963, Streng reported the successful photochemical synthesis of krypton difluoride, a result that no one else was able to produce until 1975.{{cite book|last1=Xu|first1=Ruren|last2=Pang|first2=Wenqin|last3=Huo|first3=Qisheng|title=Modern Inorganic Synthetic Chemistry|date=2010|publisher=Elsevier Science|location=Burlington|isbn=9780444536006|page=54|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mJBW5pLF5R8C&pg=PA54|access-date=8 April 2017}}{{cite journal|last1=Lehmann|first1=J|title=The chemistry of krypton|journal=Coordination Chemistry Reviews|date=1 November 2002|volume=233-234|pages=1–39|doi=10.1016/S0010-8545(02)00202-3}}
Streng published a number of papers, often relating to experimental work with the noble gases kryptonGrosse, A. V., A. D. Kirshenbaum, A. G. Streng, and L. V. Streng, "Krypton tetrafluoride: preparation and some properties," Science Vol. 139, No. 3559 (1963): 1047–1048, {{doi|10.1126/science.139.3559.1047}}.Streng, L. V. and A. G. Streng, "Photochemical formation of krypton difluoride from krypton and fluorine or oxygen difluoride," Inorganic Chemistry Vol. 5, No. 2 (1966): 328–329. and xenon.{{cite book
|last1=Jäger|first1=Susanne
|last2=Jouanne|first2=Jörn
|last3=Keller-Rudek|first3=Hannelore
|last4=Koschel|first4=Dieter
|last5=Kuhn|first5=Peter
|last6=Merlet|first6=Peter
|last7=Rupecht|first7=Sigrid
|last8=Vanecek|first8=Hans
|last9=Wagner|first9=Joachim |title=F Fluorine Compounds with Oxygen and Nitrogen|date=1986|publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg|location=Berlin, Heidelberg|isbn=978-3-662-06339-2|pages=46|edition=8th|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rpfsCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA46|access-date=27 August 2016}}{{cite journal|last1=Holloway|first1=John H.|title=Synthesis of xenon difluoride by exposure of xenon–fluorine mixtures to daylight at room temperature|journal=Chem. Commun.|date=1966|issue=1|pages=22|doi=10.1039/C19660000022}}Kirshenbaum, A. D., L. V. Streng, A. G. Streng, and A. V. Grosse, "Preparation of XeF4 (xenon tetrafluoride) by electric discharge," Journal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 85, No. 3 (1963): 360–361.Streng, L. V. and A. G. Streng, "Formation of xenon difluoride from xenon and oxygen difluoride or fluorine in pyrex glass at room temperature," Inorganic Chemistry Vol. 4, No. 9 (1965): 1370–1371. Her contributions were sometimes noted in a manner less formal than shared authorship: in the acknowledgements of one of Alex Streng's papers, he thanked Lucia and another frequent collaborator, Abraham D. Kirshenbaum, for "their contributions in the experimental work."Streng, A. G. "The Chemical Properties of Dioxygen Difluoride," Journal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 85 (1963): 1380–1385, {{doi|10.1021/ja00893a004}} (accessed 24 August 2016).
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