History of Science and Engineering Annotation << Back MARCEL POURBET’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCIENCE OF METAL CORROSION G.Yu. Timofeeva The publication sets out the facts of the biography of the Belgian chemist Marcel Pourbet, who is widely known as the author of diagrams named after him, reflecting the most clearly thermodynamic data on the electrochemical and corrosive behavior of metals in aqueous media. Examples of Latimer and Frost diagrams are also given. Keywords: Corrosion, diagram, thermodynamic potential, acidity. DOI: 10.25791/intstg.3.2021.1259 Pp. 11-19.