Jaroslav heyrovsky biography

Jaroslav Heyrovsky was born in Prague on 20th December, 1890, the fifth child of Leopold Heyrovsky, Professor of Roman Law at the Czech University of Prague.
Jaroslav Heyrovský was a Czech chemist who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1959 for his discovery and development of polarography.
Jaroslav Heyrovsky Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1959.

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Czech inventors

Jaroslav Heyrovský

(1890-1967)

Jaroslav Heyrovský Jaroslav Heyrovský was a Czech chemist and inventor. Heyrovský was the inventor of the polarographic method, father of electroanalytical chemistry, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1959.

Jaroslav Heyrovský was born in Prague on 20th December, 1890. He obtained his early education at secondary school till 1909 when he began his study of chemistry, physics and mathematics at the Czech Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague. From 1910 to 1914 he continued his studies at University College, London, under Professors Sir William Ramsay, W.C.Mc.C. Lewis and F.G. Donnan, taking his B.Sc. degree in 1913. He was particularly interested in working with Professor Donnan, on electrochemistry.

The first polarograph which became a model for commercial instrumentsHeyrovský'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. Polarography is an instrumental method of chemical analysis used for qualit

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Jaroslav Heyrovský

Jaroslav Heyrovský (pronounced[ˈjaroslaf ˈɦɛjrofskiː](help·info)) (December 20, 1890 – March 27, 1967) was a Czech chemist and inventor. Heyrovský was the inventor of the polarographic method, father of electroanalytical chemistry, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1959.

The main field of work of Heyrovský was polarography.

Jaroslav Heyrovský was born in Prague on 20th December, 1890, the fifth child of Leopold Heyrovský, Professor of Roman Law at the Charles University in Prague, and his wife Clara, née Hanl.

He obtained his early education at secondary school till 1909 when he began his study of chemistry, physics and mathematics at the Charles University in Prague. From 1910 to 1914 he continued his studies at University College, London, under Professors Sir William Ramsay, W.C.Mc.C. Lewis and F.G. Donnan, taking his B.Sc. degree in 1913. He was particularly interested in working with Professor Donnan, on electrochemistry.

During the First World War Heyrovský did his war service in a military hospital as a dispensing chemi

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Heyrovský, Jaroslav

(b. Prague, Czechoslovakia, 20 December 1890; d. Prague, 27 March 1967)

electrochemistry.

Heyrovský studied mathematics, physics, and chemistry in the Czech section of the Prague university (then called Charles-Ferdinand University), which he entered in 1909. There he was especially influenced by the physicists František Zāviška and Bohumil (Gottlieb) Kučera and by the chemist Bohumil Brauner, who had studied in Manchester under Roscoe and was well known for his work on rare earths. Perhaps the example of Brauner and the fame of Sir William Ramsay influenced Heyrovský to continue his studies in England. He entered University College, London, in 1910, and received the B.Sc. in 1913. It was an unusual step, since at that time most Czech graduate students tended to complete their education in Germany, France, or Switzerland. Attracted to electrochemistry, a subject close to the heart of F. G. Donnan, who had succeeded Ramsay, Heyrovský began a Ph.D. thesis on the electrochemical properties of aluminum.

World War I began while Heyrovsky was on holiday in