Jaroslav Heyrovsky

Jaroslav Heyrovsky, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1890-12-20 in Prague, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic)

Gender: male

Field: Czech chemist and inventor (1890–1967)

Biography

Jaroslav Heyrovský was a Czech chemist and inventor who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1959 for his invention of polarography.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1959

Awarded on: 1959-10-26

"for his discovery and development of the polarographic methods of analysis"

Affiliations:

  • Polarographic Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science – Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
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