Jaroslav Heyrovsky & 3069 Heyrovsky Asteroid - Prague, Czech Republic - Extraterrestrial Locations on Waymarking.com

Heyrovský was the inventor of the polarographic method, father of the electroanalytical method, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1959. His main field of work was polarography.

During the First World War Heyrovský worked in a military hospital as a dispensing chemist and radiologist, which enabled him to continue his studies and to take his Ph.D. degree in Prague in 1918 and D.Sc. in London in 1921.

Heyrovský started his university career as assistant to Professor B. Brauner in the Institute of Analytical Chemistry of the Charles University, Prague; he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1922 and in 1926 he became the University's first Professor of Physical Chemistry.

Heyrovský's invention of the polarographic method dates from 1922 and he concentrated his whole further scientific activity on the development of this new branch of electrochemistry. He formed a school of Czech polarographers in the University, and was himself in the forefront of polarographic research. In 1950 Heyrovský was appointed Director of the newly established Polarographic Institute which has since been incorporated into the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences since 1952.

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CZ: Zde pusobil v letech 1919-1950 profesor Jaroslav Heyrovský nositel Nobelovy ceny za chemii.
EN: Professor Jaroslav Heyrovsky, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, worked here from 1919-1950.



3069 Heyrovsky Asteroid is a main-belt asteroid.
Discovered by: Z. Vávrová
Date of discovery: 16. 10. 1982
Place of discovery: Klet Observatory

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