Died 1967-03-27.
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Jaroslav Heyrovský
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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science · Czech chemist and inventor (1890–1967) · chemist · physicist · inventor · teacher · scientist · also Jaroslav Heyrovský, Jaroslav Heyrovsky, Heyrovský
Born 20 December 1890 · Died 27 March 1967 · Q157701
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1965· 2 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1965).
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Heyrovský was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1965
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1960· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1960).
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1959· 2 entries
Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1959).
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Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Aix-Marseille (1959).
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1951· 2 entries
Awarded Klement Gottwald State Prize (1951).
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And in 1955 the Order of the Czechoslovak Republic
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1950· 1 entry
Heyrovský was appointed as the Director of the newly established Polarographic Institute, which was incorporated into the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in 1952
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1933· 1 entry
The USSR in 1934, England in 1946, Sweden in 1947, the People's Republic of China in 1958, and in U
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1927· 1 entry
And received honorary doctorates from the Technical University, Dresden in 1955, the University of Warsaw in 1956, the University Aix-Marseille in 1959, and the University of Paris in 1960
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1926· 1 entry
Professor Heyrovský married Marie (Mary) Koranová, and the couple had two children, a daughter, Jitka, and a son, Michael
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1922· 1 entry
And in 1926 he became the university's first professor of physical chemistry
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1890· 1 entry
Born 1890-12-20.
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