H jaroslav

Biography

JAROSLAV HEYROVSKY (1890-1967), Czech chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry for 1959 for his discovery of polarography.Jaroslav Heyrovsky was born in 1890, he was educated at the universities of London and Prague. In 1913 he became a demonstrator in chemistry at University College in London. Appointed in 1920 an assistant in the chemistry department of Charles University, Prague, he was successively lecturer and assistant professor, and from 1926 to 1954 headed the department of physical chemistry. In 1922 he received recognition for the development of polarography, a method of electrochemical analysis for detecting unknown substances in complex chemical solutions, which quickly became an indispensable tool in analytical chemistry. In 1933 he visited the United States as Carnegie Visiting Professor at the University of California. The first Czech citizen to receive a Nobel Prize, Heyrovsky was director of the Polarographic Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague. He has received many international honors. Heyrovsky died in Prague, on Mar. 27, 1967.

Research Interest

Chemistry